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$>

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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


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