At first I thought vitalistic thinking plays a role in this repugnance. However:
People don’t seem to have that sort of yuck reaction when it comes to freezing human sperm cells or eggs, or storing frozen human embryos and then later reviving them to resume their normal development in a woman’s womb. Nobody I know of calls the babies produced from previously frozen cells zombies.
And they certainly don’t object to eating frozen foods, either ones like ice cream, or ones they have to heat up first. If cryonics offends the hominin brain because freezing somehow deprives biomass of its mythical “life principle,” then why doesn’t it also do that to food (depriving it of its life-sustaining value) and embryos (depriving them of souls)?
At first I thought vitalistic thinking plays a role in this repugnance. However:
People don’t seem to have that sort of yuck reaction when it comes to freezing human sperm cells or eggs, or storing frozen human embryos and then later reviving them to resume their normal development in a woman’s womb. Nobody I know of calls the babies produced from previously frozen cells zombies.
And they certainly don’t object to eating frozen foods, either ones like ice cream, or ones they have to heat up first. If cryonics offends the hominin brain because freezing somehow deprives biomass of its mythical “life principle,” then why doesn’t it also do that to food (depriving it of its life-sustaining value) and embryos (depriving them of souls)?