Isnt the possibility of success in cryonics too small?
Cryonics, the freezing of people who are legally “dead”, can be regarded as an experimental medical procedure. It is in the nature of cryonics that it cannot presently be subjected to clinical trials to determine its effectiveness. What we know is that it is possible to stabilize a patient’s condition by cooling them in liquid nitrogen (- 196 C). A considerable amount of cell damage is caused by the freezing process, but once frozen the patient can be stored for millennia with virtually no additional tissue degradation. The hypothesis on which cryonics rests is that at some point in the future the technology will be developed that will enable us to revive the cryonics patient, reversing the freezing damage and the original cause of deanimation. In order to show that cryonics will not work, it is necessary to show that no future technology, no matter how advanced, will ever be able to revive the suspended patient. When we consider what is routine today and how it might have been viewed
