CryoNet #32315

CryoNet - Sun 17 Jan 2010

    #32315: Re: Stressing rejuvenation to promote cryonics [Mark Plus]

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Message #32315
From: Mark Plus <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Stressing rejuvenation to promote cryonics
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:34:12 -0800

In Cryonet #32314, Ben Best writes:

>> I was asked to concentrate on the scientific
>> aspects of cryonics. I will devote the first
>> half of my presentation to rejuvenation science because
>> I believe this is an essential part of the cryonics
>> program that is too often missed, and which provides
>> so much incentive (a marketing benefit for outreach).

>David Stodolsky wrote:

>> What evidence is there to support this view?

>   I have drawn this conclusion from the hundreds if not
thousands of conversations I have had with people
about cryonics.

I've also noticed that several components of the cryonics idea fail to communicate well, including the role of rejuvenation as part of the revival process, and the expectation that progress in trauma medicine will lead to the ability to repair "whole body frostbite," as someone called cryonic suspension.

Instead I read or hear misconceptions about waking up in Future World with the aged body that killed you in the first place, or "skepticism" that because nobody can revive you from suspension now, the whole cryonics exercise can't possibly work.

Of course, "skepticism" of that sort rationalizes not doing anything to make cryonics better, and therefore guarantees its continuing underperformance. As I feel tempted to say to such people, "Okay, brainiac, tell us your plan for staying alive." 

Given that cryonics idea has circulated in the culture for almost 50 years, and that people can now easily read about it online, I'd like to know why such misunderstandings about it persist.

Mark Plus



 		 	   		  
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