[MURG] homeostating despite rapid flux

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:57:42PM +0000, alex mcLin wrote:
> Very interesting article! It does seem to suggest that gradual uploading is 
> the best way to go.

No, taken together with flat EEG lacunes it's a very strong empiric argument
for human identity being a spatiotemporal activity pattern, and not a given
fixed physical structure. The atoms nor molecules are essential, their
pattern is.

On the minus side of living in a state of rapid flux, is that the 
system rapidly unravels once the homeostatic mechanism
is disrupted (lucky people are not small animals such as rabbits, which are
mush within some 15 min of normothermia). Otoh, the bottleneck is still the
window while you can still flush out, and load the tissue with
cryoprotectants, before initiating thermal descent. In healthy people that
seems around one hour of warm ischemia, give or take some 10 minutes. 

Of course gradual uploading would be just great, but I doubt many if any of
us here on this list will see capabilities required to build devices as
described in http://nanomedicine.com

> >http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040601.html

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