X-Message-Number: 33475
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:36:21 -0700
Subject: John Gray on cryonics as a "religious" exercise
From: MARK PLUS <>



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/feb/14/john-gray-science-religion-philosophy-video

Ironically Gray calls cryonics "cheating death," which assumes exactly
the sort of animistic thinking he talks about. We should strenuously
avoid using that phrase ourselves, because it projects the theory of
mind to where it doesn't belong, and it frames cryonics an unethical
activity.

Of course, if cryonics eventually succeeds as a means of survival,
we'll call it "medicine."

Mark Plus

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