From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 18:59:54 MDT
Dossy asks
> What's the point of being put into cryogenic suspension if you can't
> be sure that you'll ever come back...
It's better to be alive than dead.
> and when you do come back, how can you tell you came _back_
> to where you left and aren't actually elsewhere and simply
> being deceived?
For the same reason that even you have spent less than five
minutes today worrying about whether your brain is in a jar
in Moscow. If it is, there's little you can do about it.
Enjoy life instead. Also, re-read Eugene's recent answers for
what a number of Extropians think.
> And, if when you finally are resuscitated, if the world
> is nothing like the way you left it, is it worth coming back?
You can't know unless you try it. Try to be positive, try
to stay alive. Besides, quality of life has become better
and better over the course of the last ten thousand years.
That's quite a track record! My hunch is that you simply
cannot imagine how great life'll be centuries from now.
> My point: If your only hope at life extension is to go into cryogenic
> suspension until such time that you can enjoy life extension, you might
> as well just die -- it wouldn't make a difference.
Maybe you should proofread your sentences a bit; that one
doesn't hold up very well, so far as I can see.
But the main thing is---and this you can bank on---being
alive in the future will be vastly better than being dead.
Lee Corbin
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