Safety wouldn't really matter because you were just gonna die anyway, right? But it would be pretty cool to see what the world would be like so many years into the future.
One problem. Over population. What happens when an entire generation of 60 and 70 year olds start freezing themselves with instructions to thaw them out in 50-100 years? Then in 50-100 years we have a massive increase in population and the world's economy goes to shit. I think its an all around bad idea. Play the cards life dealt you.
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"I don't care if I fall, as long as someone picks up my gun and keeps on shooting." -Ernesto Guevara.
isn't this what happens in reincarnation, except this time, you keep the same shell, and who's to say that once your spirit leaves this body it'll be the same one going back into it? a married couple may freeze themselves but one of them may not come back in the same shell....
and about overpopulation, whose to say that nature won't take care of that in the next 100 years??
plus, you never know human nature, we change for both the good and the bad, 100 years from now or more could be drastic changes in social class, maybe even so much so that the ones who come back from the iceberg get treated like second class citizens b/c they aren't "current" 'like we are'...you never know, they could be made into servants or something like that....just think back 100 years, the social class was different, so, I would suspect that just b/c someone is considered attractive and pretty and smart TODAY, doesn't mean their physical and intellectual status will be able to compare to what people 100 years from now will be getting...and to think, if they are in their 30s, they will only recall their education from 100 years past...nothing modern like the ones born into the society of 100 years from now.
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what's the confusion about?? i think that people 100 years from now are going to be smarter (in their years) then we are in our years...so, if someone freezes themselves into the future, there is a possibility that when they thaw out, they'll be the village idiot, everyone else around them will be smarter and probably have a different mind set and culture, etc.
If they're smarter they'll be advanced past the point of alienating those that are "different". You bring up a weak point. Its not going to be like Planet of the Apes of something as ridiculous as that. culture and society structure as progressively getting better for the minority. In the future, people will most likely be much more tolerant than they are now.
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"I don't care if I fall, as long as someone picks up my gun and keeps on shooting." -Ernesto Guevara.
i think people can be technologically smart but still alienate those that are "different. Japan is technologically advanced, very bright citizens, but how many people of all races and ethnicity have complained of racism in Japan?
And, I am not talking about genetic evolution, but technological, the parallel about "the planet of the apes" is nonsense b/c i wasn't talking in those terms. take someone who was at their social height 100 years ago, and let's say they secretly had cyrogentics and they are able to thaw out right now, they would have to learn the internet, driving, social relations, evolved spoken and written language, and our cultural issues, remember, the western culture is dynamic, or at least, it has been long enough to predict it.
cryogenetics is old news, you know, i did a special project about it in Chem class in high school.
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sorry if i sound silly, but i wonder..i think the brain is different then the mind ...
i'll start a thread about it, but have to think about how to word it...but many species have a MIND but not a brain or a large one (fungus, viruses, bugs, ect.) have some form of "mind" (i suspect a mind-map or network of communication b/t them, not sure of the range, but i do wonder if their frequency vibration gets interpreted by like or unlike viruses or bacteria, ect.), they have a MIND, imo, but no brain, and i even heard of accounts of coma victims, some folks in a coma or even brain dead, were able to process thought (while they were brain dead) and when they "came back", was able to explain what they heard...the mind is different from the brain, the brain is the hardware that interfaces with one (or more if you believe in "walk-ins") mind(s). sometimes, the software program (mind) is better then the hardware (brain) and other times, it's in reverse, the hardware (brain) has much more space/cells?? and speed/neuron-synapse??? then what the software (mind) is using but somehow, is pretty efficient in it all, the person maybe smart and quick, but just not expansive in being smart and quick.
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