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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:55:10 +0200 (CEST)
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Yes, it's required that psychologists figure this widespread intuition about 
"spirits" and the afterlife. Nevertheless, it wouldn't hurt if philosophers 
learn to understand something better too. Cryonics and psychology, that's an old
missing link. There are still scientists who want to create nanobots for the 
repair of defunct neurons while they even don't know some simple functions about
the brain that can be studied from the psychological behavior of creatures. 
Very strange.


Nerves me I'm discussing this instead of an expert. However, I'm practically 
involved in psychology since I was in psychotherapy myself, had to take 
psychopharmaceutics, and kept reading in books and magazines about the treatment
of mental illness to learn about some of the defunct parts of my own brain.


If there would be a great reanimation trust, it might become handy to finance 
the development of nanotech for the repair of the brain (just cryopreserved or 
genetically persistent against retarding senescence). Thus, even the brains of 
some simple mortal beings like me would only profit from this (improved 
therapies, etc.). While the nanobots are unavailable yet, one can bet that all 
the necessary steps for an understanding of the brain's functions should be 
accomplished anyways, espc. due to psychology.


Cryonics providers are planning for centuries. But an accrediting organization 
for them will often try quicker incentives like the development of software for 
an increase in AI during the next few decades. There's been talk about the 
importance of a brain/computer interface over the years and I'm sure, there will
be many improvements in software without any requirements for expensive 
upgrades on the hardware-side.


Psychology works to figure the religious preferences from people who need 
communications for cryonics in all levels of society. Not anyone can be happy 
without religion, just get it with existentialism, escapism as a scientific 
follow-up of early and original (!) Dianetics (no, I'm no sect/cult member), and
modern forms of psychoanalysis!
>
> Subject: Re: Religion & Cryonics
> From: David Stodolsky <>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:01:46 +0200
> References: <>
> 
> On 20 Jun 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
> 
> > So cryonicist philosophers need to understand this widespread intuition
> about "spirits" and the afterlife, and understand why it is intuitive, and
> what the alternatives would be, and how to explain them to the general
> public.
> 
> It isn't philosophers, but psychologists who study intuitions. Terror
> management theory gives a pretty good explanation:
> 
> <http://cosmism.blogspot.com/2010/05/existentialism-today-terror-management.
> html>
> 
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