Paul Crowley (
ciphergoth) wrote2010-01-21 11:14 pm
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Anti-cryonics links
I may not reply to everything in that 159-comment thread but thanks to everyone who participated. I hope people don't mind if I carry on asking for your help in thinking about this. I might post articles on specific areas people raised, but first I thought to ask this: my Google-fu may be failing me. I'd appreciate any links anyone can find to good articles arguing against signing up for cryonics, or pointing out flaws in arguments made for cryosuspension. I don't mean South Park, thanks :-) I'm looking for something that really intends to be persuasive.
thanks again!
Update: here's some I've found
thanks again!
Update: here's some I've found
- Ebonmuse, On Cryonics
- Ebonmuse, Who Wants to Live Forever?
- Why we'll never be downloaded
- Why Minds Are Not Like Computers - actually there's quite a lot of scholarly writing arguing that the idea of simulating a brain on a computer is not merely impractical but impossible in principle.
- Michael Shermer on cryonics
- Skeptic's Dictionary on cryonics
- Cryonics–A futile desire for everlasting life
- Quackwatch - Is Cryonics Feasable?
- Ben Best - Debates about Cryonics with Skeptics (Best is President/CEO of the Cryonics Institute, but this is a snapshot of a debate on the James Randi forums, with a link to the original forum debate)
- Frozen Stiffs, Ruth Holland, BMJ 1981
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I mostly just recommended the two shows because I found them quite entertaining and relevant.