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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11722