X-Message-Number: 32389
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: cryonics terminology
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:32:39 +0100
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On 15 Feb 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> You are of course free to use whatever term you like.
> Suspendee, cryonaut, and preservee may be appropriate in
> certain contexts. But inventing new non-dictionary words
> means creating new jargon, and risks creating a separate
> set of cryonics "elites" who "get cryonics".

Terms like 'suspendee' run no risk of creating new elites, since the  
base word is well understood and the concept of suspended animation  
has been around since the beginning of science fiction, if not before.

According to the reanalysis of the Bager data presented earlier, the  
overwhelming majority of persons will avoid thinking about cryonics or  
any other death related thoughts. The term 'patients' gives them just  
what they need to laugh off the entire idea of cryonics. Death related  
thoughts cause anxiety and that can be released by a good laugh.

>
>
> Opting out of information-theoretic death is, as far as we
> can tell, entirely possible.

This argument assumes you can get people to even consider the benefits  
and costs of cryonics. There is little support for this assumption  
with the overwhelming majority of people.


dss


David Stodolsky
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