Is cryonics a science-fiction?

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Permalink Reply by Mark Plus on June 8, 2010 at 14:49

Brad: Someone can always come with up extreme scenarios for revived cryonauts. How about the one where your resuscitators in Future World treat you like a celebrity, give you a fortune, offer you all the attractive sex partners you want and so forth? That just sounds like the flip side of the all the dystopian ones people imagine. Realistically, if cryonics works, the odds favor an average outcome where you wind up living like everyone else.

A lot of the objections to cryonics sound like expressions of social anxiety projected into the future. Imagine a kid who fears going to a new school: "What if the kids at the new school don't like me? What if they won't let me play with them? What if they make fun of me?" Adults' fears about revival in Future World display about the same level of maturity.