Lol somebody ate an apple once, now we’re not allowed to live forever.
Even if that was real, I don’t see cryonics as a means of living forever. Forever is a long time. There’s no guarantee of that.
set of activities … thought of as outside the proper domain of humanity
Now that’s interesting. I wonder if that might actually be more of an instinct to avoid screwing up important things, or just common sense, than something that’s religious. Even if it has been codified in religion, might it have originally stemmed from a sense of not wanting to screw up something important. It’s true that we are flawed and that whenever we attempt to do something ambitious, there is a risk of horribly screwing things up. Eg: communism. There can be unintended side-effects. Eg. X-ray technicians used to x-ray their hands every morning to make sure the machine was warmed up. You can imagine the horror they encountered years later...
I think we’re right to have a sense of trepidation about messing with life and death. It’s a big deal, and we really could gravely screw something up, there really could be unexpected consequences.
Lol somebody ate an apple once, now we’re not allowed to live forever.
Even if that was real, I don’t see cryonics as a means of living forever. Forever is a long time. There’s no guarantee of that.
Now that’s interesting. I wonder if that might actually be more of an instinct to avoid screwing up important things, or just common sense, than something that’s religious. Even if it has been codified in religion, might it have originally stemmed from a sense of not wanting to screw up something important. It’s true that we are flawed and that whenever we attempt to do something ambitious, there is a risk of horribly screwing things up. Eg: communism. There can be unintended side-effects. Eg. X-ray technicians used to x-ray their hands every morning to make sure the machine was warmed up. You can imagine the horror they encountered years later...
I think we’re right to have a sense of trepidation about messing with life and death. It’s a big deal, and we really could gravely screw something up, there really could be unexpected consequences.
New objection: Unexpected Consequences