Also, don’t bother with whole-body preservation. It’s useless, because regrowing a body is the least of revival problems,
I’d feel more comfortable with that if we knew more about the extent to which the glial cells around the heart—not to mention the remainder of the nervous system—play a role in learning, decisionmaking, emotion etc. I’d hate to lose any non-recoverable data from those systems and have to recreate it, e.g. learning to walk again or being missing emotional reactions, or who knows what else. I think I’d want to keep the “useless hunk of meat” around, just in case, even if it had to be separated from the head for better cooling.
If they did play such an important role in human thought, wouldn’t you expect there to be case studies of people who become psychologically impaired after heart surgery (in particular, the installation of an artificial heart)?
None, I can guarantee it. The wires are too long. Local cells might well be involved in handling local problems—heartbeat, reflex loops, etc. They won’t be collaborating with the brain except by providing info and carrying out orders.
I’d feel more comfortable with that if we knew more about the extent to which the glial cells around the heart—not to mention the remainder of the nervous system—play a role in learning, decisionmaking, emotion etc. I’d hate to lose any non-recoverable data from those systems and have to recreate it, e.g. learning to walk again or being missing emotional reactions, or who knows what else. I think I’d want to keep the “useless hunk of meat” around, just in case, even if it had to be separated from the head for better cooling.
If they did play such an important role in human thought, wouldn’t you expect there to be case studies of people who become psychologically impaired after heart surgery (in particular, the installation of an artificial heart)?
None, I can guarantee it. The wires are too long. Local cells might well be involved in handling local problems—heartbeat, reflex loops, etc. They won’t be collaborating with the brain except by providing info and carrying out orders.