Comment author:MelJ
22 January 2010 07:30:20PM
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Whether something seems "reasonable" or "implausible"
can depend on how one's brain happens to be wired,
perhaps due to a stroke, mental illness, or even just genetics.
As your former blog post about
asognostics
shows,
the human brain can come to
some silly conclusions with the input it's given.
How do you know if what "clicks" for you matches reality
or is due to a faulty circuit?
Personally I require evidence and
I'll sign up for cryonics when the first dead
mouse is brought back to life after dying and being frozen.
People believe in all sorts of things because they seem "reasonable".
How do you account for the fact that about 10% of top scientists
(Nobel Prize winners, members of National Academy of Science, etc)
belief in god? By comparison for the same group, I wonder what
the percentage is who believe in cryonics?
Comment author:FutureQ
24 July 2010 10:29:02AM
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While death could occur at any moment in today's world, waiting to sign up for cryonics until you've been proven that it will work, is similar to waiting until the Lottery numbers have been drawn and confirmed as winners before buying one's ticket. Oops sorry, those numbers are for the previous game, this ticket now applies to the next game.
There is no NEXT GAME in this life period. That is unless you click that signing up now is at the very least better odds for you than all those that died before there was such a chance or than for those which still refuse to click that cryonics IS the only rational choice to date.
I clicked that cryonics was for me the very instant the thought met my mind. I've come to the conclusion it's not mass madness it's mass stupidity for why most of the rest of the world that could afford it just don't get it. They likely won't until it's an option at the local hospital when tech is advancing so fast someone literally could be only a week away from a cure known to be iin the pipeline but without suspension for that week they are toast.
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Whether something seems "reasonable" or "implausible" can depend on how one's brain happens to be wired, perhaps due to a stroke, mental illness, or even just genetics. As your former blog post about asognostics shows, the human brain can come to some silly conclusions with the input it's given. How do you know if what "clicks" for you matches reality or is due to a faulty circuit?
Personally I require evidence and I'll sign up for cryonics when the first dead mouse is brought back to life after dying and being frozen. People believe in all sorts of things because they seem "reasonable". How do you account for the fact that about 10% of top scientists (Nobel Prize winners, members of National Academy of Science, etc) belief in god? By comparison for the same group, I wonder what the percentage is who believe in cryonics?
While death could occur at any moment in today's world, waiting to sign up for cryonics until you've been proven that it will work, is similar to waiting until the Lottery numbers have been drawn and confirmed as winners before buying one's ticket. Oops sorry, those numbers are for the previous game, this ticket now applies to the next game.
There is no NEXT GAME in this life period. That is unless you click that signing up now is at the very least better odds for you than all those that died before there was such a chance or than for those which still refuse to click that cryonics IS the only rational choice to date.
I clicked that cryonics was for me the very instant the thought met my mind. I've come to the conclusion it's not mass madness it's mass stupidity for why most of the rest of the world that could afford it just don't get it. They likely won't until it's an option at the local hospital when tech is advancing so fast someone literally could be only a week away from a cure known to be iin the pipeline but without suspension for that week they are toast.