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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Samantha Atkins <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Kevin Freels wrote:<br>> I am sure that in a far distant future, perhaps thousands or even<br>> hundreds of thousands of years after I am brought back from suspension,<br>> we will find a way to peer back in time and recapture his information<br>
> state at the time of his death and "resurrect" him.<br></div>You must be speaking very loosely as you have no way to be sure of what<br>is and is not possible in this regard consistent with whatever turn out<br>
to be inviolate laws of physics. Thus this is no better than any other<br>resurrection mythological belief wheeled out to give some (very thin<br>when you examine it) comfort to the bereaved. Methinks we will take<br>
ending aging and mandatory death much more seriously when we stop coming<br>up with such myths and beliefs.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>> I'll make it a<br>> personal goal of mine. He can then bring back any of those others he<br>> mentioned and even his dog. :-)<br>><br>><br></div>How generous to claim you will make a personal goal when you are an<br>
indefinitely long lived transhuman to do something that attracts you in<br>your admittedly besotted and very unaware pre-transhuman babyhood. Do<br>you honestly believe you are making a real commitment that you will be<br>
bound by for your indefinitely long lived future?<br>
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