Spudboy100@aol.com writes:
> Cryonics' seems very interesting, and I have no objections if anyone attempts
> cryonic survival-Pioneers Welcome! The only issue (for me) is that it may
> merely be a fancier way of preservation of dead body, rather then the
> restoration of a personality. Rot in good health, is usually the reply to
Cryonics need a lot more validating facts than what we have now, that
much is certain.
> this; since people feel so strongly that this is the path to hope, for them.
> My focus is more the concepts put forth by Moravec and Tipler and Tegmark
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?
> (sounds like a law firm!) Tell ya what, when scientists are hitting the news
> with humans volunteers being revived (before death!) from
> cryo-sleep/preservation--the world will beat a path to Alcor's door. Good
If this happens in a few decades, wouldn't that mean that a lot of
people had died unnecessarily?
> luck and success!
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