X-Message-Number: 23275
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:04:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: misquote
References: <>

Someone whose name is given only as "Kurt" has said,

> I read here some time ago a posting from Charles Platt
> about why he no longer has a personal interest in
> being cryonically suspended. In it, he mentioned that
> he did not want to come back into a world "transformed
> beyond recognition" (I believe these were his words)
> where no one was left that he new from "before".

Kurt apparently is quoting me from memory. This is quite
annoying, and unnecessary, since Cryonet posts are archived
online.

He is in fact misquoting me. Over the years, I have expressed
many kinds of concerns about implications of cryonics, but I
am still signed up (with Alcor). Moreover, through my writing
and through personal contact, I have been instrumental in
encouraging many other signups.

However, I have never encouraged anyone to sign up by
downplaying potential problems. All aspects of this
speculative procedure should be recognized and acknowledged.
Otherwise we are clinging to a faith instead of acting as
rational thinking beings. Kurt's faith apparently tells him
that waking up in the future will be no more difficult than
moving from one place to another in the present. I can think
of numerous obvious reasons why this assumption is probably
incorrect.

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