Consciousness, culpability, and cryopreservation
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Consciousness, culpability, and cryopreservation
- 1. Consciousness, Culpability, and Cryopreservation: Practical Problems to Preserving the Person Terasem 5th Colloquium on Law of Futuristic Persons Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, Alden March Bioethics Institute Albany Medical Center
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- (Hayashida, et al , Effects of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest with retrograde cerebral perfusion on electro-encephalographic bispectral index and suppression ratio. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2007 Feb;21(1):61-7.) Best, Benjamin, Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice, Rejuvenation Research, Volume 11, Number 2, 2008, also accessible on the web at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18321197 .
- Birch gives six reasons defending Pan-experientialism, 5 of which are compelling. One of the reasons he gives is not and shows a lack of understanding (or lack of imagination . He argues that : the distinction between a machine (which is an aggregate) and an organism leads to the recognition of the limitations of computers as models for understanding mind and consciousness. Computers have many properties but it is implausible to suppose that they have the property of unified experience of organisms. They are not organisms. It is true that their ultimate components are, in pan-experientialism, said to be experiential but these components are not organized into a hierarchy of compound individuals. A direct jump from molecules that experience in their lowly way to human experience would be impossible. The fact that billions of years of evolution occurred before human experience arose suggests that the intervening levels of experience were necessary. But he fails to consider the interaction , the merger of organic mind and machine . And what of computers that are made of DNA?