What would the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal think of cryonics — the business of freezing people until scientists can revive them? Given his scepticism and his religious fervour, not much. However, a few years ago Scottish bioethicist David Shaw thawed out Pascal’s famous wager to defend it.
Abstract:
Cryonics technologies have captured the imagination of some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley, but what about the rest of us?