Point taken. I removed the implication to question “p” per your suggestion and added implications from question q (q=”Is cryonics worthwhile?”) to the questions:
a) “Is information-theoretic death the most real interpretation of death?” b) “Is cryonic restoration technically feasible in the future?” c) “Is there life after death?”
where the implications are:
a → possibly q ~b → necessarily q c → necessarily ~q
LOL. The idea that someone might actually expect an unpleasant life after death reminds me of some sort of twisted comic plot: the protagonist who’s confident that they’re going to hell so tries to postpone eternal suffering with cryonics.
Seriously however, you’re right. Here’s another possible qualification: are we talking about a finite or infinite life after death? In light of these possibilities, I changed “c → necessarily ~q” to “c → possibly ~q”. I can’t change the wording of the question “Is there life after death” because that question in its simple general form is already used in many other contexts on TakeOnIt. At one point I’d considered allowing annotating an implication (e.g. to express qualifications, exceptions, etc.), but the complexity of the feature didn’t seem worth it.
Point taken. I removed the implication to question “p” per your suggestion and added implications from question q (q=”Is cryonics worthwhile?”) to the questions:
a) “Is information-theoretic death the most real interpretation of death?”
b) “Is cryonic restoration technically feasible in the future?”
c) “Is there life after death?”
where the implications are:
a → possibly q
~b → necessarily q
c → necessarily ~q
( See the result here: http://www.takeonit.com/question/318.aspx )
Don’t you mean ~b → necessarily ~q?
Also, for c, you must specify, “Is there pleasant life after death?”
Yes, it should have been ~b → necessarily ~q.
LOL. The idea that someone might actually expect an unpleasant life after death reminds me of some sort of twisted comic plot: the protagonist who’s confident that they’re going to hell so tries to postpone eternal suffering with cryonics.
Seriously however, you’re right. Here’s another possible qualification: are we talking about a finite or infinite life after death? In light of these possibilities, I changed “c → necessarily ~q” to “c → possibly ~q”. I can’t change the wording of the question “Is there life after death” because that question in its simple general form is already used in many other contexts on TakeOnIt. At one point I’d considered allowing annotating an implication (e.g. to express qualifications, exceptions, etc.), but the complexity of the feature didn’t seem worth it.
I’m not sure, but I think I heard at least one story about someone who actually did this.
Wasn’t that Paris Hilton? ;)
false alarm, she’s not signed up