[MURG] Re: Cryonics costs

[Eric Zilli]

If the technology existed to record one's memory right before death,
then cryonics wouldn't be an issue at all, since that alone would let
you live on in uploaded form. To phrase it another way: the goal of
cryonics, in this discussion at least, is to keep the brain intact
until technology exists to extract the mind.
Physical damage doesn't make one less oneself. Were I to lose a
finger, I would still be me.


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:09:36 -0700, Anna <pantheon at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> This depends on individual memory. But DNA plus an old memory would be
> enough to recreate "you".
> Memory can be recorded  right before a natural death and stored till ready
> to use.   
> Cryonics are not an answer since all matter including the "dead
> kind, is a subject to time, and  physical damage  is almost  a bet.  
> What it means, even if you would be resurrected, it won't be "you". 
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> Anna 
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Eric Zilli
Hasselmo Lab - Computational Neurophysiology
Center for Memory and Brain
Boston University
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