In a message dated 02/17/2000 6:43:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de writes:
> Do you have any evidence that we are already immortal, in
> Moravec/Tipler/Tegmark sense? I.e. is theirs a falsifyable hypothesis?
> If it is, could a cryonics suspension somehow jeopardize your
> (Omega-transcendent) immortality?
Observation #1. The falsifiability is a terrific rule of thumb by Kuhn;
however,
the ability to even theoretically falsify a hypothsis,
may vary from
epoch to epoch; depending on advances in science and
technology.
Observation #2. You have nothing to lose doing the cryonics route. Its not
like
you'll be forgotten about as all others are
somehow
transported to Valhalla.
>If this happens in a few decades, wouldn't that mean that a lot of
>people had died unnecessarily?
Well, I am not advocating that everyone hop in a bath of liquid nitrogen,
once the freezing on cells inner structure problem, gets solved. However,
what I am suggesting is that when one is faced with a critical illness; those
people might opt for a several decade snooze; till medical science leisurely
develops far better treatments and cures. I see no real advantage in a frozen
corpse; unless one can actually revive! It seems more logical to freeze a
person at the beginning of illness, then to wait until mortality, and then
hope for re-constitution.
Spud
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