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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Article to be published in Free Inquiry
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:47:38 -0700

On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> Message #29599
> From: David Stodolsky <>
>
> On 24 Jun 2007, at 16:02,  wrote:
>
>> This may be enough  for
>> preservation of the human mind,
>
> "mind" should not be treated as a noun. "Brain" would be better here.

Pardon, but "mind" is a perfectly acceptable noun.
It may not be the most appropriate noun (perhaps
unnecessarily abstract, since mind arises from and
depends on brain), but it's definitely a noun.  See:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=mind+

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind

(Firefox's Search Engine bar makes looking things up
_so_ much easier!).

>
>
>> cryonics is not a guaranteed ticket  to the future, but is a
>> best efforts
>
> 'effort' is normally used, it is already plural.

Actually it's not -- the word "a" is a clue there.
A singular noun is appropriate.  The word "cryonics"
is the oddball here -- it's "plural but singular in
construction".

In any case, David, you're right for the wrong
reason -- "effort" is correct.

> dss

Live long and prosper,
Kennita "My Google-fu is mighty" Watson ;-)

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