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From: "Robert V Hill" <t.blackm...@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: Re: SOCIAL: Tech legislation: Anti-cryonics move in AZ
Date: 23 Feb 2004 19:33:52 GMT
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"Gina Miller" <nanog...@halcyon.com> wrote in message
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>
>  Here's an attempt to regulate a technology out of existence, or
> at least make it leave the state... with advanced nanotech being seen as
> similary weird/icky/dangerous in some circles, what does this imply for
> the progress of nanotech?  For more information on the cryonics law,
> including a call for political action that the newsgroup charter
> prevents me from posting here, see
> http://www.alcor.org/legislativealert.html
>
>
> Thanks to those who know for the rewording of this message.
>
>   Thank you, Gina Miller
>
>   Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
>   Nanotechnology Industries
>   http://www.nanoindustries.com
>   Personal: http://www.nanogirl.com
>   Foresight Senior Associate http://www.foresight.org
>   Nanotechnology Advisor Extropy Institute  http://www.extropy.org
>   Tech-Aid Advisor http://www.tech-aid.info/t/all-about.html
>   Email: nanog...@halcyon.com
>   "Nanotechnology: Solutions for the future."
>

I believe those that believe in cryonics  believe in a pipe dream, dead is
dead. Once the brain stop working, the mind is gone. Whether you believe in
a soul or not, in order to keep the mind alive the brain must keep working.
In other words freezing the brain may save the brain, but I believe it kills
the mind.

[ Moderator's note: This response and likely replies fall outside the scope
  of this group's charter and focus. But I'll allow one rebuttal post (if
  any are sent; I'll select only one if more than one arrive) - all other
  replies on the subject of the permanence of brain death will be redirected
  to the newsgroup sci.cryonics.  -JimL ]