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Cryonics Is Cool

Robin Hanson
Dec 13, 2008
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May 15

When a very used ship docks into the shipyard, and in the process of overhaul, virtually every plank and nail is replaced, is it the same ship sailing out to sea again? Socrates asserts that the nature of any object or phenomena is determined by participation in abstracts forms. The formal stance enduring as central in modern science, is position that that objects or phenomena are characterized by the dynamic structural arrangement of matter snaking through space-time, not the specific individual particles of which objects or phenomena are comprised at any fleeting moment, that are always in flux. After all, objects such as trees and stones, are merely slower moving phenomena than such rapidly energetic phenomena as flames and tornados. Therefore, indeed, Dr. McCoy can rest assured that indeed he survives beaming up and down between the Starship Enterprise and the planets they visit. But poor distraught Will Riker, much to his/their chagrin, having beamed up twice after only beaming down once, is no longer sui generis.

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May 15

I prefer the original Beavis & Butthead.

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