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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Forward from a long time lurker, seldom poster:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alan<br><b>…</b><br><b>Subject:</b> do-over: National Review slant on Bostrom's cryo. signup<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Spike, this post at exl was a blind link. Couldja do it over?- note the ultra- snarky comment at the end.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/350848/head-transhumanist-have-dead-head-frozen-wesley-j-smith"><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/350848/head-transhumanist-have-dead-head-frozen-wesley-j-smith</span></strong></a></span><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Oxford Professor (of </span></strong><em><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>course!</span></b></em><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>) Nick Bostrom, </span></strong><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><a href="http://beta.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/327383/transhumanists-and-human-dignity"><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#0066CC'>one of transhumanism’s founding would-be post humans</span></strong></a></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>, intends to be decapitated after death and have his head frozen so he can live forever. </span></strong><span class=storytop><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>The belief that death is the only certainty in life is a concept senior academic staffs at an Oxford University Institute are hoping to dismantle, by paying to be cryogenically preserved and brought back to life in the future. </span></b></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy at the Future of Humanity Institute [FHI] and his co researcher Anders Sandberg have agreed to pay an American company to detach and deep freeze their heads in the advent of their deaths.</span></strong><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Wait. I thought Bostrom was going to upload his mind into a computer. Oh, that’s the point: </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Speaking to the Sunday Times, Sandberg said that life with just a head would be limited, but that he hoped by that point the process could involve downloading his personality and memories onto a computer.</span></strong><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Good thing these guys don’t have to make a living in the real world.</span></strong><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>