X-Message-Number: 20647 From: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:45:34 EST Subject: Pascal and cryonics --part1_c9.2d4eae4f.2b31abce_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have one of the first edition of the Pascal's thinking. Most of the philosopher ideas was about religion. To summarize: We must have faith in god and worship it, because if god is real we gain eternal life in the paradise and if there is no god we have nothing to loss. There is the Bozo's thinking :-) Long life and unlimited life span will come from high tech more surely than from bible reading. Cryonics is the way to stop the decay process and gain the time requested to bring back patient to life. Three technological levels can be envisioned: 1/ Brain scanning at molecular level and use of the information to run an electronics copy of the brain. That brain could control a robot. 2/ Use the brain on computer with a direct link to a biological body. For example a clone of the original person or may be something else, for example an animal. 3/ Repair the original body, some think about nanotechnology, I would bet on quantum mechanics extended present and filtering out the different quantum states in a quantum computer before sending back the result to the thawed body by teleportation. Nothing of that assume a god to be sure, on the other hand each step implies an enormous intellectual, technical and financial investment and many years of hard work on a mountain of practical problems. I don't see the church intoxicated to contribute in any way to that. So why such parasitic people must be granted the benefit of a way to see the world fully out of their concept? Here they must learn that money is not all: You can't buy eternity with it, at least not the one worked out from technology. There must be a clear statement for everyone: If you follow a church, whatever the one you chose, then your god will take care of you, don't count on technology. If you place your bet on technology, you are the person that look interesting in a techno-world and science will make something for you, forget heaven. I have said before that, if I had a saying in the use of brain readers, I would forbid their use to recover religious people. That was seen as a blunt statement, so let me put it in another way: We must respect the most profound choice of everyone: The god followers have chosen faith, god, heaven,... We must respect that choice and let them decay, even if as a second choice they got frozen. We are not gods, we have no right to interfere with that domain. To get back to Pascal, faith can be noxious: It closes the road to technology. From here, if that way of thinking is put in general use in the tech world, everyone will have to make a choice: Must I follow the established faith system or the technology? From here, let the conservation instinct to do its job. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_c9.2d4eae4f.2b31abce_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20647