X-Message-Number: 31554
From: Kennita (Go Cryo!) <>
Subject: Re: cryonics as science
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:19:53 -0700
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> From: 
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:39:24 EDT
> Subject: cryonics as science
>
> ... Doing
> science, or being scientific, does not require that you know for  
> sure what
> your  results will be...

On the contrary, if you know what your results will be,
you're not doing science, you're doing engineering.  One
might, however, claim that what we're doing is
"unscientific" because we don't even have a well-specified
hypothesis, or an experiment with repeatable results that
we can be assured of completing in a reasonable timeframe.
"[T]he intelligent use of probabilities" in cases like
this where we have no real idea what will happen or when
may depend on what one means by "intelligent" -- without
experimentation, there's no way to tell, and one might be
doing philosophy rather than science.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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