X-Message-Number: 11280
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:19:39 -0700 (MST)
From:  (Dave & Trudy Pizer)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #11272 - #11276

>Message #11273
>From: Thomas Donaldson <>
>Subject: multiple quantum universes probably not digital
>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:13:32 +1100 (EST)
>
>Hi everyone!
>
>Mike Perry and I may go on for some time --- so it seems.
>
>First of all, I can see the morality of resurrecting our friends and 
>relatives, given that we find out how to do so (which we may not). I do
>not see the morality of resurrecting (or creating?) purely hypothetical
>beings to which we have no special ties. For instance, if Lucy (the
>early hominid which MAY be an ancestor of everyone now living) could be
>resurrected, I see no special reason to do so. Sure, we could go back
>and resurrect every creature that ever existed or might have existed,
>but the more distant they become from us and our associates, the more
>that seems to be only a meaningless expression of technical ability.

I disagree.  Thomas does not say why he sees the morality of resurrecting
friends and relatives, but whatever that reason, it then would be applied to
the friends and relatives of those friends and relatives.

Let's say, for instance, Thomas would bring back his grandmother whom he
knew.  But she would not be happy without her mother (or other friends and
relatives which Thomas might not have known).  And then her mother  (or
other friends or relatives) and her mother  (et al) on so on, until we *do*
get to Lucy.


For humans to reach their ultimate, best condition would be to bring back
every past human and animal IF it could be done without harm to any others.
(Yes, some past people and animals might have been very bad, but if we have
the technology to bring them back, we can have the technology to motivate
them to be good from now on).


Dave Pizer

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