X-Message-Number: 3916 From: (Joseph J. Strout) Subject: Campus speakers? Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:53:03 -0800 (PST) I've found that a surprising number of my peers (even in the neuroscience department) have not heard of cryonics, or (worse) have heard only rumors that leave them with an impression of quackery. This ignorance could be alleviated, perhaps, by an occasional public talk given by someone knowledgable (and preferably active) in the field. Are such talks generally given? I would think that this would be a inexpensive and particularly compelling way to reach a good pool of potential customers. College students, we may also suspect, might be more receptive to what is still a new idea (to most people) than the average American would be. On the other hand, I suppose most college students are not yet sufficiently concerned about their deaths to do anything about it. Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing opinions on the notion of campus talks in general, and whether anyone could be persuaded to come speak at UCSD in particular (in particular, that I may help arrange it). ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout Department of Neuroscience, UCSD | | http://sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/ | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Check out the Mind Uploading Home Page: | | http://sunsite.unc.edu/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html | `------------------------------------------------------------------' Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3916