X-Message-Number: 24948 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:32:59 -0700 Subject: Re: CryoNet #24940 - #24945 From: Kennita Watson <> On Saturday, Oct 30, 2004, at 02:00 US/Pacific, Randolfe Wicker wrote: > Cryonicists should simply want to be brought out of suspension, have > their illnesses corrected, the aging process reversed and to live on > in the body they know with all its capacities for pleasure restored. Nice of you to tell me what I "should" want... ;-) . I don't want my capacities for pleasure restored -- I want them expanded. I want eyes and ears that can process more frequencies and amplitudes of light and sound. I want bones and organs that can withstand greater forces, so I can experience the exhilaration of high speed and great height without fearing I'll break a bone or worse, and go deep underwater without SCUBA gear. And while I'm at it, I'll want my brain to have capacity to learn the skills to exercise these capacities, and to appreciate the input I get. And I want all this without giving up what I have -- at least until I'm sure I won't miss it. Or I can undo it. Hey, maybe if I upload, I can download into a meat-body sometimes as a kind of vacation! Oh, foo. I certainly expect that by the time I have to make such decisions I'll be a lot smarter than I am now. And if circumstances conspire to make the decision for me (I'm frozen and uploading is the only option for my survival, say), well, it's made and I can decide at that point whether or not I like it. I think I'm talking myself out of having this discussion at all; I have a lot else to do with my current slow brain and body. You folks have fun. Live long and prosper, Kennita -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24948