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[mike]

Here is a link to a thread at a forum for skeptics -- the JREF forum. This particular thread fairly quickly evolves into a discussion of cryonics, with some posters arguing that restoration of a person from cryonic suspension is impossible in principle. A poster named Dancing David seems to take this position and discusses in particular the question of the restoration of memories. He says that people who "freeze their heads" are wasting their money.

http://www.randi.org...#post1870575117

[bgwowk]

It's pretty amusing inasmuch as the only poster defending cryonics is doing it as a reductio ad absurdum. In other words, materialism predicts that cryonics should work, but that would be absurd, so obviously the mind must have a supernatural component. This is what passes for argument on a "skeptics" discussion board. Go figure.

Not that anything can be done about it. The moderator is not approving new posters (over the weekend anyway), so it's purely a spectator sport.

---BrianW

[Bruce Klein]

/me shakes head.

[mike]

I see that Brian has now been approved as a new poster at the JREF forum, and has added an informative post to the thread in question.