[MURG] freezing brains

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 7:33 PM -0500 9/16/03, Joseph M. Graham Jr. wrote:

>freezing brains would not save the waves of waves in the Brain.

Waves of waves?

>And thats the Memory of the Past Time.

I'm not sure what a Memory of the Past Time is, but if you're talking 
about long-term memory, this is stored in the structure of the brain. 
We know this in lots of ways, for example, from patients who have 
been flatlined for extended periods of time during deep hypothermic 
surgery.

>We could copy the Brain with a ALL-OPTICAL NMR.

No, we couldn't, because NMR doesn't have the necessary resolution 
and never will (there are fundamental physical limits to the 
resolution achievable with such methods).  And besides, NMR is a 
structural scan too -- just a much coarser one than you could get via 
serial scanning.  So if you don't think serial scanning will work, 
you certainly shouldn't think that NMR will!

>And put it all into Holographic Storage .

I don't see that what technology is used for the data storage device 
matters, except that it needs to have sufficient capacity.  But the 
hard-drive manufacturers are already starting to think (long-term) in 
terms of terabytes per square inch.  So by the time the other 
technologies needed can be developed, I don't think disk space will 
be a major problem.

Cheers,
- Joe

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