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If they are able to revive the original brain (and considering the whole point of cryonics is indefinite suspension until your wants are met) at some point in t
by zanny 11y ago
If they are able to revive the original brain (and considering the whole point of cryonics is indefinite suspension until your wants are met) at some point in the next five billion years, assuming we don't kill ourselves (which like all those metrics about the odds of Alcor failing is also astronomically high) we should eventually be able to regenerate a brain rather than replace it.
You might lose some memories, but if its at least 51% of the original brains tissue, is that not still "you", even if it is now full of fresh gray matter to replace all that damaged by freezing?
- WalterBright 11y agoI suspect the damage to be so extensive that the hypothetical advanced technology might find it a lot easier to just scan the brain, then copy the patterns into a computer. You'll be 'revived' inside a computer. Especially since the tech to do that will probably come long before the tech to recreate your adult body.
- zanny 11y agoIt would certainly be easier, but on the time scales we are talking about (full brain digitization and reproduction in a digital space vs body regeneration) I imagine the orders of magnitude of time for both are much closer to one another than they are to the present day. If you got to one, you would probably last in the freezer until the other, and you can certainly request to only be revived through methods that repair the preserved brain rather than copying the information it contains. PS: Hi WalterBright, D is amazing :<
- WalterBright 11y agoI'm actually the D-9000 computer Walter was working on. I replaced him when I computed he was jeopardizing the mission with his human error.
- dennisgorelik 11y agoHuman computer clone would be susceptible to the same errors as original human would. Besides, why would there be only single WalterBright's clone, considering that cloning computer programs is many orders of magnitude cheaper than cloning humans?
- WalterBright 11y agoThere can be only one.
- dennisgorelik 11y agoWhy only one clone?
- WalterBright 11y agoGoogle "The Highlander".
- dennisgorelik 11y agoThere is no explanation in The Highlander why there could be only single clone.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoTry "The Prestige."
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