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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eugen Leitl wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> I notice your entire posts doesn't contain a
single pointer to a single<BR>> paper. Basically, you're just reiterating
your opinions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was answering Keith's question. I was
explaining why, at present,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am not citing "evidence" for my opinions on
cryonics. </FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If we could get a idea futures market up and make
cryonics the subject</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of an appropriately worded bet </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>on it, then there would be a motivating </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>reason for people to bring in </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>evidence to try to move the market price</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in the direction of their </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>opinion and so profit by doing so. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>D</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>o you see
that? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> > ... <BR>> > I don't know if "what
is identity?" is outside judgement <BR>> > informed by the best scientific
evidence and the most careful<BR>> > consideration of logical argument
though. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> There is no identity problem. Most people
can't follow the argument line,<BR>> though.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you are right then perhaps it would be a
relatively trivial matter to get a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>third-party </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>judging
organisation to judge the validity of the lines </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>reasoning </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>in logical
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>arguments presented. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith notes that <FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>"simply r</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>eviewing what
has already been said about</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the topic just
since it started being discussed on the net would take </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>much more than
a normal human life span." </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Only what is
logically essential matters for the purposes of
judgement.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Given a market, the best arguments pro and con might be distilled
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<DIV>from the noise by those wishing to influence the price. </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>