Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!mintaka!think!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: SPECULATION AND QUESTIONS Keywords: gate operations, virus, mental state Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 01:59:30 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Florida Lines: 30 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article well!dduke@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David Allen Duke) writes: >In regards to discussions about cryonics on this newsgroup: > >In a technology advanced enough to literally raise you from the dead >(frozen), I think the new limitation imposed on that society would simply >be raw material. What will the motivation be for that future society to >recover you? What will you offer? Should you sign an agreement before >you die stating that you will abide by the laws of that future society? Put yourself in the situation. You uncover a cryonically-preserved individual. You have the technology to revive this person. All you need do is order your nanomachines to start working, which costs you next to nothing. Will you revive this person? If you would not, would others? There are many people in the world who are driven to help others, even animals. Many do so quite altruistically: there's "nothing in it for them" other than psychic satisfaction. There is also an organization called Lifepact, which exists precisely to address the problem you raise. Lifepact is a mutual-aid society, whose members agree to revive and reorient each other. The idea is that in exchange for your own revival from cryonic suspension, you agree to provide the same service for someone else (once you are able). ____"Congress shall have the power to prohibit speech offensive to Congress"____ Alan Lovejoy; alan@pdn; 813-530-2211; AT&T Paradyne: 8550 Ulmerton, Largo, FL. Disclaimer: I do not speak for AT&T Paradyne. They do not speak for me. Mottos: << Many are cold, but few are frozen. >> << Frigido, ergo sum. >>