Re: of plague dogs and cryonics



Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >>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

Do you suppose this visceral revulsion might have evolved/been
hardwired into primates as some kind of protective mechanism as in, if
you're in a place where there are body parts lying around it's probably
a really good idea to get the hell out of there?

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