Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Honest Questions For An Honest Cryonicist Keywords: Turing, Life the Universe and Chaos Message-ID: Date: 20 Dec 89 22:43:12 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 20 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu If you are a infinitely fined grained chaotic dynamic structure, then freezing you isn't going to do much good. Otherwise you're a Turing machine, and might as well wake up in hardware. BTW: anybody remember which issue of Sci. Am. had the cold quantum chemistry article? Or as I like to call it "frozen rot". Turns out that there is a minimum rate for every chemical reaction, regardless of how cold it gets. Henry J. Cobb hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu [If you are a infinitely fine-grained chaotic dynamic structure, then a butterfly in Peking can change your whole life. There is good evidence that our brains are chaotic (e.g. Paul Rapp's work) but if so, our concept of personal identity must necessarily correspond to the attractor and not to an individual microstate. --JoSH]