X-Message-Number: 25169
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:44:59 -0800
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Dear Mike,

"In a recent posting I said, 'I think there are very good reasons 
to be involved in cryonics,' even though I also think that, based 
on the 
patternist view of survival that I accept, a person can expect an 
eventual return to consciousness regardless. Such a return would, 
however, require filling-in of missing detail by guesswork, so the 
resulting restoration would retain an ersatz character compared to 
a more straightforward revival using preserved information."

There is no need of any prior information whatsoever. In fact, you 
don't need to do a thing, because in the multiverse, an exact copy 
of you will sponteously come into existence (via the chance 
arrangement of atoms) an infinitely many times, with all your 
memories and personality traits in tact, in all stages in your 
life.

Even if this were deemed insufficient, you could just construct a 
'brain' randomly. That is, for every position, choose a random atom 

and displacement, based on a quantum mechanical random number 
generator. Of course, in most universes, this won't result in a 
brain at all, but in some it will result in an exact duplicate of 
your brain. So if, in your universe, you get junk, you can just 
discard it, knowing that in some universe that branched off from 
yours, every single person ever living or ever to live was 
duplicated, at all stages in their life.

Both of these arguments nullfiy the need for cryonics if you 
believe in both the pattern soul and the multiverse. Therefore, I 
do not see why you believe in cryonics.

I should think, you should kill yourself, and repeatedly kill 
yourself, until you find yourself instantiated in a suitable 
universe (one with potential for long life and happiness).

Of course, I don't recommend this, because in my view, if you kill 
yourself you are dead and gone, never to return.

Best Regards,

Richard B. R. 

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