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