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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:39:47 -0500
Subject: Transhumanist Goals Support Death

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I note in the CryoNet queue a fund appeal for the WTA.  Yes, Rudi - off
topic to cryonics.  But since you brought it up, let's look at it a
little more closely.  In the first place, what is the money slated to be
used for?  A magazine, a website, and a road show.  Nothing of tangible
practical use to anything, including cryonics.  Wouldn't the money people
contribute be better sent to cryonics organizations that purport to do
research?  If they got more money, maybe they would get off their frozen
butts and do some.  Maybe.

Even worse, the road show will promote Kurzweil's book that supports the
development of supercomputers to a singularity where all of us will be
assimilated into these nirvana machines.  A quote from someone's book
review:  "In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, he envisions an
event, the singularity, in which technological change becomes so rapid
and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines."

Ultimately this approach to civilization negates any need for cryonics
(other than to possibly get some people there while it is in
development), and means DEATH to the human race as we know it. 

Cryonicists who intend to preserve their brains and bodies for future
reanimation, and who like them pretty much as they are currently
designed, thank you, should refuse to support, yea even fight against,
such things as the WTA supports.

Flav
(not voting for Ron Paul, either)

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