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Everything about this feels so foreign to me. I don't understand who wants to work with it, nor do I understand who wants to sign up to be stored this way. I ca
by mongol 3y ago
Everything about this feels so foreign to me. I don't understand who wants to work with it, nor do I understand who wants to sign up to be stored this way. I can understand a wish for extended life, but feels so surreal to believe this could possibly work. I think it will be more feasible to download consciousness to digital memory than to resurrect a dead, deep-frozen body.
- mdrzn 3y agoIf the choice is between 0% chance of survival when dead and 0.000...1% chance of survival when "frozen", it seems pretty reasonable to choose the latter.
- rwmj 3y agoIt's zero vs zero, with the second choice consuming lots of resources.
- insanitybit 3y agoBased on what? It seems like a mostly sound idea - preserve a body such that it can be recovered later.
- rwmj 3y agoIt's pretty gross, but the brains of people in persistent vegetative state break down after many years. The same thing will happen here, albeit more slowly because of the refrigeration, but we're talking hundreds of years. There's not going to be anything left to revive.
- insanitybit 3y ago> albeit more slowly Yes, that is the entire point. > we're talking hundreds of years. So the idea here is that in hundreds of years we will still have developed no way of taking a frozen person and unfreezing them? And then curing whatever ailment killed them? I don't see that as a sure thing at all, one way or the other.
- Tommstein 3y agoAnd you know this how?
- MagicMoonlight 3y ago[flagged]
- mongol 3y agoSurvival at what price? Even if it is possible to become revived, I doubt that it would be with full health.