Re: Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-18 Thread John Mikes
Irrespective from the hardship to decide when and who might have been the 'first' Mummy to tell tales and WHAT those tales might have been to develop into later (religious?) tales, the 'Mummy' is an adult who was already subject to 'religious' stories of the powerful for subjecting folks to their

Re: Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-18 Thread Samiya Illias
Where did the first Mummy get the tale from? > On 18-Sep-2015, at 1:39 am, John Mikes wrote: > > Samiya, "forever" is NOT a timespan, it is the infinite (maybe without an > end, or without a beginning?) so your 'to live forever' may mean: > IT IS OVER WITHIN THE INSTANT IT

Re: Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-18 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 Samiya Illias wrote: ​> ​ > Is the 'belief in an afterlife' natural? Perhaps it's something hard wired > within, such that even atheists hope to live forever! > ​Well sure, a ​desire not to die must be hard wired in, every one of your ancestors had

Re: Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-17 Thread John Mikes
Samiya,* "forever"* is NOT a timespan, it is the *infinite* (maybe without an end, or without a beginning?) so your 'to live forever' may mean: IT IS OVER WITHIN THE INSTANT IT STARTED. (Or: it may indeed mean a duration without an end, as you suggest). THE 'HARD WIRED WITHIN' is natural in an

Re: Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-15 Thread Samiya Illias
Is the 'belief in an afterlife' natural? Perhaps it's something hard wired within, such that even atheists hope to live forever! Samiya > On 13-Sep-2015, at 11:26 pm, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > Neuroscience as a new messiah. People's belief in an afterlife will never go >

Re: Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-13 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Neuroscience as a new messiah. People's belief in an afterlife will never go away. Especially in our enlightenment age. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Cryonics in the NYT

2015-09-13 Thread John Clark
The following article was on the front page of today's New York Times In the moments just before Kim Suozzi died of cancer at age 23, it fell to her boyfriend, Josh Schisler, to follow through with the plan to freeze her brain. As her pulse monitor sounded its alarm and her breath grew ragged,