X-Message-Number: 9695
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:37:00 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #9683 - #9693

Hi once more!

I liked Bill Dye's ideas of how the future would look. Good and 
interesting ideas.

A survey would also be of very great value in terms of promotion of
cryonics. So long as it takes no money from research, it will be
valuable. The only things close to surveys on cryonics happened
more than 10 years ago, and are probably outmoded. It would also
give some more concrete answers to hypotheses about WHY cryonics has
grown slowly.

I believe that such a survey would also tell us such things as 
whether or not our level of research had any influence on membership
growth (I should reformulate this in a more correct but more convoluted
way: how much our level of research had influence on membership growth).
As I've said already, I do not think that growth of cryonics is a 
good reason at all for supporting research. WE should support research
for what it will do to increase our odds of revival. I'd even go as
far as to say that even if research led to a small decrease in our
membership growth it still should be supported strongly. (Clearly if
that went too far, we'd have to take some kind of account of it. I
doubt that will happen, but hypothetically we might have to continue
our research but keep it quiet and only reveal it to selected       
cryonicists).

There are some insights such surveys may produce which will not 
satisfy anyone. And naturally they are likely to be approximate, only,
without decisively settling our questions in the way a physics experiment
might. We should all realize these possibilities.

			Best wishes and long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson

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