Today I emailed Alcor about their front page on their website that says Cryonics
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1. The phrase "Extend your life with cryonics" is misleading and could lead to more legal problems. I view it as false advertising. The phrase should indicate some degree of uncertainty which this phrase does not. Maybe something like this: "Increase your odds of surviving death to non-zero!".
1. The phrase "Extend your life with cryonics" is misleading and could lead to more legal problems. I view it as false advertising. The phrase should indicate some degree of uncertainty which this phrase does not. Maybe something like this: "Increase your odds of surviving death to non-zero!".
2. I forwarded an important reference to Mike Perry a month ago. Doug Matzke has written "Deep Reality" in which he takes the problem of individuated minds and personalities into the Quantum Realm. This cannot be ignored by cryonicists if there is going to be progress in intellectual honesty. It's as radical a plan for physical survival of cryonicists and anti-agers as cryonics is to normal society. I call it Quonics. I've coined that term as of this email. Quantum physicists in general are likely going to be as dismissive of Quonics as biologists are of cryonics in the Classical Universe of space-time-matter.
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Short of acknowledging point #2, I'd like Alcor to acknowledge the fallacy I point out in #1. Cryonics cannot extend life. It can potentially do that and more. A good way to look at it is described in this video- involving the Quantum Box which involves a Schroedinger's Cat replaced by a cryonicist who is both the subject and observer. Alcor's front page should read "Invitation to the Cryonics Uncertainty Challenge" or something like that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=viZM2GuI2nE
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