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We don't know. The actual freezing can potentially go extremely well even with current technology, but the problem is the unfreezing process. So far there's no

by zyxley 11y ago

We don't know. The actual freezing can potentially go extremely well even with current technology, but the problem is the unfreezing process. So far there's no good way to unfreeze someone and get all their cells going again. This is why the cryonics legal trusts are all designed to be financially self-sufficient in perpetuity: it's a long shot, but if you can get somebody frozen, you can potentially keep them as a meatsicle for Long Enough for somebody to invent medical nanites or machine-brain upload interfaces or whatever.

mdaniel 11y ago
> So far there's no good way to unfreeze someone and get all their cells going again. Do we have any non-human examples of this process, or is it 100% hope that the "flying cars" future will have a working process and it will be sufficiently effective to resurrect a human brain? Also, do we even have a mental model of the steps and just not the technology or are we missing the mental steps, too?