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What's great about merely preserving is that as long as we can preserve "indefinitely", the probability of future tech being able to recover the brain approache
by daenz 11y ago
What's great about merely preserving is that as long as we can preserve "indefinitely", the probability of future tech being able to recover the brain approaches 1.
- stcredzero 11y agoAssuming civilization doesn't collapse and the human race doesn't go extinct before becoming "The Progenitors."
- ryanhuff 11y agoPerhaps, but that's not helpful if the probability of the infrastructure to support the preservation (family who cares, businesses, or even civilization) surviving to reach that point approaches 0.
- daenz 11y agoThen it's not indefinite preservation :)
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoBut, see, until someone successfully recovers, we don't know if we successfully preserved enough for a successful recovery.
- wlesieutre 11y agoAlternately, all the people who would have been working on solving those problems say "I'll get my brain preserved so I can wake up and live in the awesome future after someone else solves how to thaw me!"
- Houshalter 11y agoThat's the awesome thing about cryonics. It's like forward time travel, an ambulance ride to the future. We have found organisms almost perfectly preserved for thousands of years in far worse conditions, including seeds that were able to grow and living viruses and bacteria. As long as the synapses that make you you are preserved, then a sufficient level of technology could revive you. Whenever cryonics comes up on HN there is usually a lot of negative comments. It seems "weird" and that really repels people. That was my first reaction to it. As a kid I saw a photo of a cryonics facility in some magazine. A bunch of metal tubes with frozen dead bodies inside. I thought it was really creepy and disturbing. Pictures of thawing rabbit brains aren't exactly enticing.
- Retric 11y agoAnalog systems decay even at low temperatures.