X-Message-Number: 11722
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:34:18 -0400
From: Brook Norton <>
Subject: Do you believe in cryonics?

Thomas Donaldson wrote:  

>To Brook Norton:  

I must point out that even though YOU consider the possibility of a   

Programmer controlling your life to be plausible while you do not agree 
with the possibility of God controlling your life, the intellectual status
of  your belief remains the same. Not only that, but on what GROUNDS do
you believe one idea is stronger than the other? No scientist I know of
would claim that a scientific proof of the nonexistence of God has been
attained. Not only that, but a God could control our lives exactly like a
Programmer could control our lives: hence if you believe in one, you have
reasons to believe in the other.  

Ideas which BY THEIR NATURE fail to be subject to any empirical proof are
useless subjects of conversation. If you want to believe in a special 

computer theology, go ahead. Just don't confuse it with anything experi-
mentally valid.  

                        Best and long long life to all,  

                                Thomas Donaldson <  

I truely thought I addressed all these issues in my prior message but let


me just reask this part... Do you believe that cryonics has a significant


chance of succeeding?  There is not an empirical PROOF that it will
succeed; there can't be until someone is revived.  Nevertheless, I think
it can be scientifically argued that cryonics has a significant chance of
success.  The same type of arguements can be used for a Programmer, but
not for God.  

Brook Norton new CI member  

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