[extropy-chat] Bad Forecasts!

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Are you talking of the current/proposed techniques or of the concept
itself? I would find it difficult to believe that no possible
technique can restore a deceased patient to life. You are right, I
think, that there are no sacred cows. Rather, if it works it works, if
it does not work we have to go back to the drawing board.
G.

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:59:56 +1000, Brett Paatsch
<bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:> But it is possible that cryonics
will never work. This is essentially
> my current position (and I did not arrive at that position without taking
> a close look at the arguments made in its favour). It is also possible that
> human lifespans will not exceed 123 years (though I think that is
> unlikely and turns on the definition of human).
> 
> Is a belief in the viability of cryonics an essential article of faith to
> extropians?  Can one be an extropian, in your view, if that one does
> not believe in cryonics?
> 
> I thought you would have said yes once, that it turns on the evidence
> and on how one examines propositions and beliefs. That extropians
> have no sacred cow beliefs including cryonics.
> 
> Am I wrong?
> 
> Brett Paatsch