ata comments on Christopher Hitchens and Cryonics - Less Wrong

11 Post author: James_Miller 08 August 2010 08:32PM

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Comment author: ata 09 August 2010 08:21:01AM *  6 points [-]

Perhaps Sam Harris, being that he is a well-regarded skeptic and another of the Four Horsemen. He is also a SENS supporter (fairly close in memespace to cryonics), and, as a neuroscientist, should be able to see fairly easily why cryonics is plausible in principle.

Comment author: advancedatheist 11 August 2010 03:07:03PM 2 points [-]

Sam Harris doesn't believe in the existence of the self, however, so he would probably argue that cryonics has nothing to save.

Comment author: ata 11 August 2010 05:15:56PM 5 points [-]

Sam Harris doesn't believe in the existence of the self

I wonder what that means. Where does he talk about that?