From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 11:56:09 MDT
Extropians,
A big push in this group is the notion that "we'll do cryostasis
until life extension technology becomes fully realized" unless I'm
really off the mark, right?
A few questions sprang into my head:
How will you know that you've actually awoken from cryo-sleep?
In other words, when you're finally resuscitated, will it matter to
you if you woke up in your original body? What if you wake up in
a different body? How will you know you really "woke up" at all
and really weren't just uploaded into some kind of reality
simulator and that you'll never have a physical body ever again?
Does this matter? Should it matter?
"What if you were a brain in a vat ..."
-- Dossy
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Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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