It sounds like her cerebral cortex - the area of the brain widely considered to be key to human cognition - was protected from ice formation. But even if it wasn't, there's no scientific reason to think that neural connections are destroyed beyond recognition by ice.
Since we're talking about scanning a frozen brain into a computer, obst…
It sounds like her cerebral cortex - the area of the brain widely considered to be key to human cognition - was protected from ice formation. But even if it wasn't, there's no scientific reason to think that neural connections are destroyed beyond recognition by ice.
Since we're talking about scanning a frozen brain into a computer, obstacles to biological revival - like the fact that many arteries in the brain collapse after a few minutes of ischemia - are not necessarily important to the technical chance of cryonics working. The article explicitly discusses how imperfectly preserved brains may still contain information that's crucial to personal identity.
It sounds like her cerebral cortex - the area of the brain widely considered to be key to human cognition - was protected from ice formation. But even if it wasn't, there's no scientific reason to think that neural connections are destroyed beyond recognition by ice.
Since we're talking about scanning a frozen brain into a computer, obstacles to biological revival - like the fact that many arteries in the brain collapse after a few minutes of ischemia - are not necessarily important to the technical chance of cryonics working. The article explicitly discusses how imperfectly preserved brains may still contain information that's crucial to personal identity.