X-Message-Number: 10896
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 10:41:37 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: Soul

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> From: 
> Does anybody here believe in the soul?  If so is it a tangible force? 
> What would happen to it in the event of Cryostasis?  

The soul is the program and data in a person at any given point in time. 
There is no repeatable evidence for its survival when the body is 
annihilated, eg by rotting or burning.

In the event of cryopreservation of the body (which includes the brain) this 
program and data is preserved. If technology develops sufficiently, it can 
be recovered provided enough information remains for such recovery.

If there is some situation, which we have been unable to detect in a 
repeatable and reliable manner, where this program and data are uploaded 
elsewhere on cessation of function of the brain such cessation occurs 
whether cryopreservation or rotting or burning is applied. Any advanced 
technology that is being used by a god, demi-god, easter bunny, father 
christmas, alien beings on another planet or solar system or galaxy or even 
an alternative universe etc to provide such uploading is unlikely to be 
thwarted by the simple act of cryopreservation.

-- 
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