Graphene oxide can stop ice growing

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228046-tiny-graphene-sheets-can-start-or-stop-ice-crystals-growing-in-water/

They talk about apps stopping ice say on airplane wings and such but I wonder if they can also figure out how to use this tech to freeze people without making ice crystals, maybe make real suspended animation.

@sonhouse said
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228046-tiny-graphene-sheets-can-start-or-stop-ice-crystals-growing-in-water/

They talk about apps stopping ice say on airplane wings and such but I wonder if they can also figure out how to use this tech to freeze people without making ice crystals, maybe make real suspended animation.

Let's say you find a way to perfectly freeze a person; how long will their thoughts and memories remain intact? A week? A year? 50 years?

@bunnyknight
Since thoughts and memories are just patterns of neurons and flows and such it would be like turning off a computer with non volatile memory, turn it back on and they don't even feel the change in time, if it was a thousand years, wouldn't matter, they wake up and the flow they had in their brains starts up again.
At least that is my take on it.

@sonhouse said
@bunnyknight
Since thoughts and memories are just patterns of neurons and flows and such it would be like turning off a computer with non volatile memory, turn it back on and they don't even feel the change in time, if it was a thousand years, wouldn't matter, they wake up and the flow they had in their brains starts up again.
At least that is my take on it.

That certainly would be good news, but reality may not be so rosy. There could be a whole slew or factors and variables that affect long term thought retention.

@bunnyknight
Of course but we are getting the hearse before the cart😉
First we need to show we can stop ice crystals growing in human cells which with that technology would mean an infusion of that stuff into our cells first starting with maybe rat cells in a dish or some such and see if those cell can even survive with them in place. It could be those molecules kill the cells outright.

@sonhouse said
@bunnyknight
Of course but we are getting the hearse before the cart😉
First we need to show we can stop ice crystals growing in human cells which with that technology would mean an infusion of that stuff into our cells first starting with maybe rat cells in a dish or some such and see if those cell can even survive with them in place. It could be those molecules kill the cells outright.

On the other hand, if we figure out how to download memories and thoughts to a non-organic "brain", it could change history forever.

@bunnyknight
Yes, but don't hold your breath for that one. Maybe in the 22nd century....