X-Message-Number: 26217 From: Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 03:23:05 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #26192 To T Donaldson. From T. Donaldson: >Put differently, cryonics is an arrangement between those who want >someday to be suspended and those who are suspended now. It's >the job of those who want to be suspended to care for those who >are suspended, because otherwise they call into strong question >their own fate when they are suspended. And anyone who believes >that at some time in future history we will know how to prevent >or fix EVERYTHING (meaning everything!) that might ever go wrong >with us is dreaming. How not to agree? I would add this: Outside sci-fi, most "new technologies" have in fact been built step by step from old ones. If we want a technology able to recover people in cryonics state someday, we must start with current technology and practices. This is why we must start today to define what would be a neural net for uploading. we may disagree on the subject of is the current technology able to build such a net with brain power, but we would agree that this is the first step to do if we want someday to get out of cryonics state. Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26217