[extropy-chat] hope you can comprehend

[KAZ]

----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Bloch <transhumanist at goldenfuture.net>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:24:02 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] hope you can comprehend


> I mean, of COURSE the people who believe that reanimation is feasible 
> are going to be cryonicists. If you accept that one premise, no matter 
> how slim the odds, it becomes a better bet than the alternative.

I would go further:
 
Assuming one is aware of the option, and does not have mitigating circumstances like sacrificing oneself for their survivors' inheritance or believing that they won't go to heaven if they have themselves frozen, then one who is aware of the option and does not exercise it is behaving in an irrational fashion.
 
It cannot be, as far as I can see, rational to not get frozen simply because "it won't work, anyway".
 
Five thousand years ago, the rational thing to do was mummification; what could you lose?
 
Today, it's cryogenics.
 
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