X-Message-Number: 22144
From: "mike99" <>
Subject: RE: #22134 - No, I am NOT comforted
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16:15:27 -0600

Alan Mole wrote:

> Subject: Logical hope besides Cryonics
>
> Hope Beyond Cryonics
>
> We base our hopes for immortality on cryonics and nanorepairs, betting
> there's almost nothing technology won't be able to do in fifty or
> a hundred years.
> Which is probably true. But taking this argument one step
> further, maybe we
> don't need Cryo.
>
> Vernor Vinge, and ray Kurzweil postulate brain-computer melds in
... the Singularity.
>
> The same logic that says future technology will be able to revive
> the frozen
> soon -- well, sooner or later -- must hold that it will advance
> beyond that
> point, until in five hundred or surely in five thousand years,
> all this will be
> in our capability and will get done.  So, frozen or not, you get saved.
>
> Anyone comforted?


Sorry Alan, but I am not comforted. Why? Because you assume that we will all
still be alive when the Singularity arrives (and I do think it will arrive).
If we die before that moment and we are not cryopreserved, then we will NOT
be revived.*

*(NOTE: Or, to be more precise, we will not be revived anytime soon. If Mike
Perry is correct, then our continued existence will occur by other means at
a time and place far removed from our current earthly timeline.)

So by all means, I think we should work on the technologies that will lead
to the Singularity. But at the same time we should provide ourselves with
the ultimate insurance policy: cryonics.

Don't leave home without it!


Regards,
Michael LaTorra




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