X-Message-Number: 23557
From: Tim Freeman <>
Date: Fri,  5 Mar 2004 09:21:46 -0700
Subject: Easy vs. Important (was 'Miracle' boys defy death under the ice)
References:  <>

Scott Badger <> wrote in cryomsg 23554:
>I don't profess to fully understanding the technology
>underlying cryonics, so correct me if I'm wrong but
>... does this story really have anything to do with
>cryonics?

The point is that some people believe that cryonics is pointless
because memories require ongoing metabolism to support them.  When
someone is resuscitated with memories intact after a period of
essentially no metabolism, that's a counterexample to this one reason
not to do cryonics.

However, most people who are giving reasons not to do cryonics are
giving easy reasons rather than important reasons, and this is one of
the easy reasons to give.  Therefore defeating this reason
accomplishes nothing beyond forcing the person you're talking to to
give you another reason.  That is progress only because the new reason
has some positive chance of being important.  The important reasons
are usually something like giving-up on being engaged in the world or
having decided to delegate life decisions to the wrong peer group.

Does anyone have examples of other important reasons not to do
cryonics, and how to respond to them?  

I should try proselytizing more, so I know my way better around this
maze.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  
GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D  7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23557