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Cryogenics is a bit like Pascal's Wager. A gamble with a low probability of success multiplied by a supposedly-infinite payoff ought to be worth buying into at
by afafsd 12y ago
Cryogenics is a bit like Pascal's Wager. A gamble with a low probability of success multiplied by a supposedly-infinite payoff ought to be worth buying into at any price, whether it's paying money to freeze your brain or just worshipping whatever religion is promising to reward your faith with eternal paradise.
It suffers from the same problem too. Just as the god of Christianity is in competition with the god of Random-Other-Religion, both of these are in competition with cryogenics. Maybe freezing your head will stop you going to heaven, so now you've got a low-probability infinite cost to set against your low-probability infinite prize.
- blueskin_ 12y agoSpecious analogy - with cryonics, there aren't 500 other competing methods of escaping death where picking the wrong one would permanently ruin your chances.
- scott777 12y agoI don't follow your logic. If cryonics works then you will be awoken from death as certainly as people who are currently awoken from death via CPR and defibrillators. The people awoken under those circumstances still eventually die and either go to heaven he'll or nowhere but in the meantime they are great full to be alive because of modern medicine. ..why would cryonics be any different? And what criteria do you use to show that the chances are so slim ?
- scott777 12y agoIt's like saying why opt for CPR when you could simply die and go for heaven if you choose the correct religion. OR as you put it you can't know which God to choose so to heck with religion and CPR as well. That makes no sense and is a misinterpreted version of a pascal's wager.