X-Message-Number: 30861
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:23:47 -0700
From: "Jeff Davis" <>
Subject: Re: frozen souls? [Harmony]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Harmony <>wrote:


>...when a people decide to go to cryonics and be frozen, he/she will be dead in
the tube, right? But, if they will be dead, how it is possible to preserve the 
soul inside their body? ... how is it possible to get back the same soul in the 
same body, ...

Marta,

The soul is not a scientific notion.  It can't be detected, located,
measured, or characterized in the scientific way of material stuff in
the material world.  So if it exists, science simply has no way of
addressing the question of how it works or how it would respond to the
freezing of the body to which it belongs.

I'm being gentle with you here, Marta.  Cryonicists, as I know them,
largely view their undertaking as scientific and materialist.
Metaphysical/religious notions (ie the soul) may be viewed as relics
of an earlier, unscientific age of mysticism and superstition, and not
relevant to any rational purpose.

 Best, Jeff Davis

   "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
                           Ray Charles

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