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

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