User talk:Mcat151515

Hey fellow Wikipedians!

Does anyone visiting this site feel that cryogenics will ever be able to meaningfully restore a person after decades of "suspended animation" to their previously conscious state? I doubt that it will never be that a person's brain tissue will be revived to first, activity on the EEG or PET scan, but given the ongoing debate on the complexity of consciousness, even if the senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and kinesthesia, and heat//cold or pain are revived, will his or her instincts, and intangibles of personality be there? In the longest cases of clincal death, code blue, how many are left, when revived, with permanent memory and personality changes?

IF the person returns with memories of his//her personal life, and the same value system, personnae, YES! This would be wonderful; but is there any evidence that the person would be AS much "themselves" as if they were cloned from highly-mitotic cells in the squamous cells of the cheek or GI lining? There is NO evidence that memory and personality are "molecules"; molecules are directed by the dynamic state of "Life and Consciousness", this state with molecules serving only as little wagons, IS the "seat of the soul" [Descartes], memory, personality. Look at the range of personality change memory loss and loss of talents that accompany Dementia; from the "mild" to the psychotic amnesiac. And each level in between.

SO, do I oppose cryogenics? No; but to work, I feel external stimulation and enviromental SIMULATION of consciousness must be addressed a priori, this will be the deciding factor of success, not which agent protects the most cells from death by freezing; Static, osmotically isotonic cells will be DEAD without the forementioned factors.

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