X-Message-Number: 25853 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Soulless cryonauts Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:26:29 -0800 I might add that I suspect a discussion of the Schiavo case among cryonicists will activate terror-management confabulations. In the back of our minds we fear that even with the best cryosuspension possible, future medicine won't be able to recover our memories and personalities in sufficient enough detail to provide a continuous sense of personal identiy. At best we'd just wind up with artificial minds overlaying Schiavo-like substrates, like the Amerindian character reconstructed from a mummified brain in one of Thomas Donaldson's stories. Manage your risk, not your terror. Mark Plus Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25853