On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 7:56 AM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
> The idea of body transplants and immortality through various means is at > best on hold. Yes, and putting things on hold Is actually the entire point of freezing a brain with liquid nitrogen. I fully admit that cryonics is an unproven technology and I maintain it will remain unproven until the very day it becomes obsolete. The only way to prove it works is to repair the damage from freezing and bring somebody back, but if your technology is advanced enough to do that then it's advanced enough to stop them from dying in the first place so cryonics would no longer be needed. > Also the problems coming at us that may well put a kibosh on the whole > human enterprise You are on a sinking ship during a very powerful hurricane, there is room for you in a small lifeboat but you're far from land, no SOS has been sent, and the waves are mountainous. Do you get into the lifeboat? Do you take measures to try to save your life even if you're not certain those measures will be successful? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0Q_ww2qmt2Z5iWzrmkGgfypZ-Y__YUoERJcLRxq5xzmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
