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I've been a cryonicist for years. Last year, at a local cryo meeting a
woman who has been a member for a few years, remarked, "You just
can't change human nature". She got an education on this topic from
me!<br><br>
Very few people think very far. The culture outside of the rational world
is based on feelings and not thinking. The New Age disdains thinking.
(Several months ago the Skeptical Inquirer had a good article by a woman
who had spent most her life in New Agery, and came over to
rationalism.)<br><br>
If the history of accepting medical procedures, jet planes, and the
internet are a guide, it is <u>direct self interest</u> which wins the
day. In your face, everyone else is doing it, gotta deal with it, oh,
really is useful after all.<br><br>
I personally went through two versions of this lately. 1: Cell Phone,
after 5 months of not using it, suddenly was useful to coordinate a
meeting in a strange town. Oh. 2: Starting a non centralized business
thing, mostly on email, cornered into using Skpye for teleconferencing,
OH, nice to have email on screen while we talk. <br><br>
If it is useful, and it is easier to use it since others do so anyway, it
gets accepted. If any of the pills spammers try to sell men actually
worked, we would all know it soon, and fortunes would be made, within a
few months.<br><br>
Reality supercedes possibility. The usual objection to Cryonics these
days is "if it worked, I'd sign up". Well, a rabbit has been to
-22deg C and back, so this may come any day now.....<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>...although this is a tough
problem. I review the<br>
above, and I'm not entirely happy with my proposed<br>
solution. But what do others think?<br>
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<div>= Hara Ra (aka Gregory Yob) =</div>
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