I don't dispute any of the testable science - some of it may be wrong, I'm not qualified to say, and I would expect to find some of it debunked if it were significantly wrong. But the testable science doesn't give a plausible complete cryonics system. So, to me, it doesn't make the 'whole thing' plausible. The 'whole thing' has problems that we don't know how to solve and which may indeed be unsolvable. The plausibility of solutions to those isn't, to me, linked to the plausibility of assertions which are generally part of mainstream science. I'm unsure why you feel that it is.
To me, it feels a bit like saying that teleportation is plausible because the science of data transmission is well understood. Granted, data transmission is probably going to need to be well understood if we're going to create a working teleporter, but solving data transmission doesn't make it any more likely that we'll solve the other problems posed by teleportation; the ones where we don't even know where to start. (I think cryonics is considerably more plausible than teleportation, for the record, it was just the simplest analogy I could think of.)
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Date: 2010-01-23 09:38 pm (UTC)I don't dispute any of the testable science - some of it may be wrong, I'm not qualified to say, and I would expect to find some of it debunked if it were significantly wrong. But the testable science doesn't give a plausible complete cryonics system. So, to me, it doesn't make the 'whole thing' plausible. The 'whole thing' has problems that we don't know how to solve and which may indeed be unsolvable. The plausibility of solutions to those isn't, to me, linked to the plausibility of assertions which are generally part of mainstream science. I'm unsure why you feel that it is.
To me, it feels a bit like saying that teleportation is plausible because the science of data transmission is well understood. Granted, data transmission is probably going to need to be well understood if we're going to create a working teleporter, but solving data transmission doesn't make it any more likely that we'll solve the other problems posed by teleportation; the ones where we don't even know where to start. (I think cryonics is considerably more plausible than teleportation, for the record, it was just the simplest analogy I could think of.)