X-Message-Number: 4745 From: (Brian Wowk) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Rebooting a suspendee Date: 7 Aug 1995 23:01:33 GMT Message-ID: <40660d$> References: <> <3veele$> <> In <> (Will Ware) writes: >You could take the view that each uploader is only a better or worse >spokesman for the idea, and that they each have slightly different >beliefs. So if one seems rampantly overoptimistic and claims that >uploading is being bundled into Windows 95, it doesn't mean they're >all equal loonies. To me, a lot of what Moravec discusses sounds very >plausible, albeit probably a long way off. Yes, you are right. I should be more tolerant and less inclined to attribute the opinions of individual uploaders to *all* uploaders. This is particularly important when dealing with people like Mr. GeorgeNet, who is probably the craziest uploader I've seen yet. As to Hans Moravec, well... let me paraphrase from a 1989 (+- 1 year) interview in Omni magazine. Omni: What do you think of cryonics? Moravec: Cryonics is very crude. I'm actually much more interested in the prospect of using hyper-advanced technology to resurrect deceased persons using clues left behind in their surroundings. Presumably the *brain* of a deceased person is not a very important clue they can leave behind. Go figure. ---Brian Wowk Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4745