Yet another reason for British cryonicists to relocate. Mike Darwin has received criticism over the years for injecting an antinomian philosophy into cryonics; but I’ve had a similar sense of the incompatibility between cryonics’ implicit morality and the morality of the entrenched death-oriented society in which we live.
Basically it comes down to terror management. When we learn about our mortality as children, the knowledge traumatizes the human mind, and we go through the rest of our lives suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).* Cryonicists at least pay lip service to the idea of finding engineering solutions to the problem of death. But we still have PTSD working against us, and not just socially, but also within ourselves.
*This suggests an experiment. What if we administer a beta blocker to a child before we explain the facts of death to him or her? Would that alleviate the terror response and result in an individual relatively untraumatized by the knowledge of mortality?
Yet another reason for British cryonicists to relocate. Mike Darwin has received criticism over the years for injecting an antinomian philosophy into cryonics; but I’ve had a similar sense of the incompatibility between cryonics’ implicit morality and the morality of the entrenched death-oriented society in which we live.
Basically it comes down to terror management. When we learn about our mortality as children, the knowledge traumatizes the human mind, and we go through the rest of our lives suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).* Cryonicists at least pay lip service to the idea of finding engineering solutions to the problem of death. But we still have PTSD working against us, and not just socially, but also within ourselves.
*This suggests an experiment. What if we administer a beta blocker to a child before we explain the facts of death to him or her? Would that alleviate the terror response and result in an individual relatively untraumatized by the knowledge of mortality?