X-Message-Number: 20284
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:20:34 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #20275 - #20281

Some comments for Stodolsky and Mark Plus:

For Stodolsky: You're playing a bit loose with definitions here,
even if the figures for the number of people who ever lived
(which you got from elsewhere) are valid. Yes, stone age people
can be said to have an economy. Not all economies are those of
industrialised societies. As for claims about care for infants,
it's flatly false that chimpanzees or other apes don't care
for their children. We may choose not to count the lives of
infants which did not survive (say) to 10 years, but that's
a decision on how to count the number of those who ever lived.
Obviously if we don't count failed lives such as infants dying
very early, then our count of the number of people who ever
lived will go down. Nor am I sure that primitive peoples could
care for their infants any better than the chimpanzees did theirs.

2. For Mark Plus: You might do a bit more study of quantum 
computing. All of the efforts of physicists to make such computtrs
may well become successful, and they do violate some of the 
basic assumptions made by previous theoretical work on computing.
Not only that, but we may find ourselves revived due to the
computational abilities of quantum computers... reassembling a
brain is a hard problem, if you haven't noticed.

                Best wishes and long long life for all,

                    Thomas Donaldson

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