[extropy-chat] RE: Neuroeconomics: Biotech Meets Economics

[Mike Lorrey]

--- mike99 <mike99 at lascruces.com> wrote:

> The results of this research may indicate why so few people are
> rushing to support transhumanism, with its promises of large future
> payoffs for investing in present-day research and such endeavors as
> cryonics. The emotional brain centers predispose people to favor
> immediate gratification.
> Delayed gratification requires thought and self-discipline, neither
> of which is over abundantly represented in observed human behavior.

True, but this should not interfere with what should be a significant
number of people signing up for cryonics contracts late in life when
mortality is evident, for the same reasons people take up activities of
such improbable payoffs such as praying....


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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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