X-Message-Number: 18284
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 12:26:52 +0000
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Kent's questions
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kent wrote:

> 

> When i asked about sexual re-orientation i never would have thought that i 
would yield the answer of changing species, now this has possibilities, thankyou
John, i never would have thought about that. although i appreciate your 
approach of save yourself first change later, changing sex is one of my major 
visions.

Kent, would you rather be dead than male?  If the answer is "no", 
sign up now.  When your ship is sinking, you get on the lifeboat.
Arguing about which direction to sail is a matter for discussion
after you're out of the water.

If the answer is "yes", and you hate being male enough to die 
rather than continue to be one, I will suggest that changing 
genders may not have the effect you desire.   
> 

> and all this talk of not needing money, i have heard about the concept, but 
doesn't money make this world what it is, and although there are a great many 
people making a difference in lieu of money, i can't see this change happening 
any time soon.  i think i would have to be frozen for a very long time to see 
that happen.

Money makes the world what it is, yes.  I think the world will be 
very different when nanotechnology makes it possible to manufacture
virtually anything from raw atoms.  This may or may not mean there
is no money, but its significance will be much changed when it is
not *needed* for food, clothing, or shelter.
> 

> what is the general consensus, do we have a better change of a successful 
re-animation through vitrification, or nitrogen freezing, there has not been 
much conversation along those lines?

Opinions vary.  I think people who are vitrified will be 
reanimated sooner, as there will be less damage to repair,
but nanotechnology and computing power will allow recovery 
of frozen patients as well.  

I expect suspension technology to improve; sign up rather 
than wait for it.  You can get a transfer once you have
a ticket (i.e. change organizations), and you can direct 
your organization to use the best technology available to
them when you need it.
> 

> i cant help but thinking that i am alone in this pursuit as far as my family 
goes.  as mentioned, i am 40 and of good health so with the exception of any 
unplanned occurrences i hopefully have a long way to go before i die, but do not
see my wife joining me and my kids are to young to understand, maybe in this 
future this will change.

Question to those who have seen Vanilla Sky:  if family 
members see it, will they be more favorably inclined 
towards your being cryonically suspended, less favorably
inclined, or won't it make any difference?
> 

> i would like to make an initial start on this, or at least begin to understand
how to map this out.  what did you mean when you said that CI only promises to 
consider any written requests of the patient, subject to our policies at the 
time in regards to my question of having my current "self, thoughts and 
memories"  re-animated into a female body?

Do they also get to decide _which_ female body?  Would 
you rather lie around in stasis for the hundred years
it may take to perfect that technology, or take that 
hundred years trying out different bodies in what will
surely be a mature virtual reality by that time?  
> 

> thankyou all for taking the time to respond to me and my questions, you have 
made me feel warm and welcome.  i appreciate the effort it takes to answer the 
same old questions to the latest new guy.

I hope I haven't seemed too harsh.  I feel concerned and
caring.  I know a number of transsexuals and know that
they go through quite a bit of psychological evaluation
and counseling, and wonder if the obsession with changing
genders warrants looking into in its own right.  I definitely
want to see what being a man is like, but I'll start with
my Mark 0 body as the easiest case, and try others in VR
or when gender change has become as easy as changing 
clothes (or maybe hair color) is now.  I also expect
psychology to have improved greatly by then -- the first
thing I'll want to change is my self-esteem, closely 
followed by my fear of creepy-crawly things.

*Please* don't die because you want to live as a woman!
-- 
May you live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Kennita Watson          | Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
     |   None but ourselves can free our minds.
http://www.kennita.com  |           -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

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