A new book about sentience

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:24:04 GMT, Matt Giwer
wrote:

I read that but I was serious. People do not die even of old age.
They suffer repeated trauma until one occurs which they do not
survive. George Burns did survive to 100 but did not appear at the
Palladium as the trauma of air travel would have been fatal. One can
look at death as so easy to occur we can put people on trial for
accidents or so hard to reliably kill that we debate reliable means of
execution.

Many issues about death are indeed fascinating. The time at which it
occurs, the whole vocabulary "disease" "fatal disease" and the like.

Fact is, if there is ever to be any chance of this being successful
the process has to occur while the person is realitively healthy so
the preservation process can be survived.

I think so.

At the moment the only way
to do that would be to legally kill the person by induced hypothermia
followed by replacing the blood with antifreeze.

Pretty much, yes. Though even here, as I understand it, the big
problem is freezing the brain through and through fast enough. It's
not easy cooling a mass all the way through, fast. And I don't
remember the details, but the brain starts suffering permanent damage
in an extremely short period after ... "death".

Who is the we that uses the words? Of a random thousand people you
might find one person who has seriously considered the issue and ten
who have memorized the thoughts of others and the rest may or may not
remember one or more Sunday School side discussions.


Is the author Joss Whedon?

??????????

Buffy, Vampire Slayer, Vampires as bodies without a soul inhabited by
demons.


Religion and science are incompatible methodologies.

They are different methodologies. But ultimately they seek
understanding of one and the same universe. There is only one
universe. There is only one reality. It's just that it may be a very
long time before they reach common ground. The universe is a very big
place..

A listing without rigorous definition is not science. Using different
words interchangably is clearly not science.

It does not wash.