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Coma patients are actually alive, though, and have been known to come back. If you believe that dead people have come back, you're religious. ...this might be
by NateEag 3y ago
Coma patients are actually alive, though, and have been known to come back.
If you believe that dead people have come back, you're religious.
...this might be controversial, but I'll argue that thinking you'll live again if you get chronically frozen requires as much faith as believing you'll live again in an afterlife.
There's not much evidence for either, so you're left squinting heavily at vague suggestive outlines, making your bets, then hoping and trusting it works out.
The difference is what you put that faith in, and why.
- metalcrow 3y ago> ...this might be controversial, but I'll argue that thinking you'll live again if you get chronically frozen requires as much faith as believing you'll live again in an afterlife. I would say they are similar, but there's a key difference there. One relies on believing in the ingenuity of humans and the improvement of technology, both of which have been observed. The other relies on believing in the word of people who came long before you, which has been observed to be less then stellar. The fact of the matter is you literally have to choose between those 2 or giving up completely.
- NotSuspicious 3y ago> I'll argue that thinking you'll live again if you get chronically frozen requires as much faith as believing you'll live again in an afterlife. It actually requires more because there are numerous documented cases of the dead coming back to life within certain religious ontologies whereas cryonics is only a potential resurrection in the future with no precursor. Imagine a Christian doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead without the Empty Tomb.