Well, if any of this is to based in reason, then we should be asking questions like...
1) Where is the proof that life is better than death?
2) Where is the proof that the future of humanity is somewhere we'd like to be?
If we were to discard reason and proceed on faith and personal inclination then, no problem. That which is not built on reason can not be challenged with reason.
If you were familiar with cryonics or my writing on the subject you would know that it is entirely based on reason. Most of my readers know that -- whether or not they think it's likely to work. I recommend you study the idea before asking whether it's based on reason. There was an excellent FAQ at alcor.org but it was recently removed, along with much other excellent material, so I'll give you a different initial pointer: https://www.biostasis.com/what-is-cryonics/
I'm writing a book on the subject that I intend to be a one-stop shop, so to speak, for information on the subject. Be aware that the Wikipedia entry is controlled by someone relentlessly hostile to cryonics, the appalling David Gerard.
You asked your first numbered question on another of my posts. I'm not clear what you would take as sufficient to answer the question. The fact that each of us (with rare exceptions) chooses to get up each day and live shows that we find life better than death. Non-existence lacks any appeal since it's the end of all value. How could life not be better than that? (Unless you are being tortured without end, etc.) Perhaps you think there is something "after death"? Unless we are living in a simulation -- something I cannot rule out -- it seems almost certain to me that there is no non-physical afterlife. Even if we are in a simulation, it doesn't seem especially likely that the simulator would give us an afterlife.
Your second question would take a long answer. Fortunately, I've answered it many times. (Although there can be no "proof" about the future, only good reasons.) My Getting Better series of articles covers several aspects of this topic. You might check out books such as Hans Rosling's Factfulness, or Norvig's Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, or the recent Superabundance, or Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist.
Well, if any of this is to based in reason, then we should be asking questions like...
1) Where is the proof that life is better than death?
2) Where is the proof that the future of humanity is somewhere we'd like to be?
If we were to discard reason and proceed on faith and personal inclination then, no problem. That which is not built on reason can not be challenged with reason.
If you were familiar with cryonics or my writing on the subject you would know that it is entirely based on reason. Most of my readers know that -- whether or not they think it's likely to work. I recommend you study the idea before asking whether it's based on reason. There was an excellent FAQ at alcor.org but it was recently removed, along with much other excellent material, so I'll give you a different initial pointer: https://www.biostasis.com/what-is-cryonics/
I'm writing a book on the subject that I intend to be a one-stop shop, so to speak, for information on the subject. Be aware that the Wikipedia entry is controlled by someone relentlessly hostile to cryonics, the appalling David Gerard.
You asked your first numbered question on another of my posts. I'm not clear what you would take as sufficient to answer the question. The fact that each of us (with rare exceptions) chooses to get up each day and live shows that we find life better than death. Non-existence lacks any appeal since it's the end of all value. How could life not be better than that? (Unless you are being tortured without end, etc.) Perhaps you think there is something "after death"? Unless we are living in a simulation -- something I cannot rule out -- it seems almost certain to me that there is no non-physical afterlife. Even if we are in a simulation, it doesn't seem especially likely that the simulator would give us an afterlife.
Your second question would take a long answer. Fortunately, I've answered it many times. (Although there can be no "proof" about the future, only good reasons.) My Getting Better series of articles covers several aspects of this topic. You might check out books such as Hans Rosling's Factfulness, or Norvig's Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, or the recent Superabundance, or Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist.
Yes, we prefer life to death. That doesn't prove life is better than death.
I didn’t know of the Jameson science fiction saga. I’ll read it.
Reading vintage science fiction we often find the science background too naive compared to our science.
But we shouldn’t forget that our science will seem equally naive in a century or two.
So feel free to enjoy vintage science fiction! The universe is wonderful and mysterious.
You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC2PHE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o05?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The second story in that two-for-one is grim, but Jameson survives.