X-Message-Number: 29248
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:36:05 -0800 (PST)
From: 2Arcturus <>
Subject: Re: revival instructions 

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I have often wondered about this myself. It seems to me that there is not enough
thinking about the conditions that people might or might not find acceptable 
for resuscitation/reanimation.
   

  For just one example, I've noticed that some cryonicists (typically older?) 
  would object strongly to being "copied," for example, through uploading. 
  Copying them and then asking their copy whether they wanted to be copied kind 
  of begs the philosophical objection.
   

  I myself have no objection to being copied, but obviously some people disagree
  and feel strongly about it. If people are going to be satisfied with their 
  cryonic suspension, they need to clarify their wishes and make them known.
   

  It is difficult though to anticipate future technologies and 
  conditions/circumstances. If you are too restrictive, and people in the future
  are very literal about observing your guidelines, you may end up 
  short-changing yourself. The future may have something, or may have thought of
  something, that you did not anticipate and that would have made you decide 
  otherwise if you had known about it.
   

  Another consideration is that in the future, cryonics organizations will 
  probably not be making the full decisions about how patients will be 
  resuscitated/reanimated. Doesn't it seem likely that courts will step in and 
  make the determination? Judges acting on the wisdom of the society, perhaps 
  using court-appointed guardians for the patients. If the cryonics 
  organizations possess written statements, those might be taken into 
  consideration, but they may not be decisive. The key decider will be how 
  society (through its legal system) will have come to think about resuscitation
  from cryonic suspension.
   

  Anyway, I think this is an interesting and important topic that doesn't get 
  enough discussion. 


 
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