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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23275