Re: of plague dogs and cryonics

>>For now, Dr. Lemler said, people prefer storing heads over bodies by a
ratio of about 2 to 1. He declined to provide specific numbers. One
reason, he acknowledged, is money. Heads cost less to maintain because
they require less space and fewer freezing compounds. But they also
provide all that might be necessary through future stem-cell growth
that would presumably restore the head to a fully healthy body." <<

COMMENT:

Yes. All basic information available on www.alcor.org. So?

I think there are certain scenarios which wind people's clocks from a
monkey-emotional point of view. Besides the obvious problems with
snakes and spiders, there are two others that go deep in the psyche.
One of them is travel to a place where you're a stranger. In time
travel, that's where you're an anacronism, the device that first made
H.G. Wells a famous writer. The other has to do with the idea of
disembodied body parts and particularly heads. If you want to scare the
crap out of a monkey, show it a monkey head (this means leopards in the
vicinity). Or take it away from the troop.

In one of my lectures on this subject I've pointed out that Washington
Irving wrote several dozens of short stories, but nobody knows any of
them but two. He's only remembered for 1) Rip Van Winkle, and 2) The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

SBH

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