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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:45:34 EST
Subject: Pascal and cryonics

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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.

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