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?
A comedy sketch show take on Cryonics, with reanimated people from the 1940s bought up by a TV company when the cryonics company folded, and stuck in a 'Big Brother House'. Just the kind of miserable future that looms disproportionately larger in the mind than it is objectively likely to happen.
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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?
Speaking of Nobel prize winners and cryonics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Lzr3cwaPs
A comedy sketch show take on Cryonics, with reanimated people from the 1940s bought up by a TV company when the cryonics company folded, and stuck in a 'Big Brother House'. Just the kind of miserable future that looms disproportionately larger in the mind than it is objectively likely to happen.