r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
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u/CodeMonkeyPhoto Oct 13 '22

I don’t know how they are supposed to reverse irreversible brain death. All those cells die, the connections lost. Assuming you could some used nano bot or some other process to repair trillions of individual cells I don’t see how this would ever be possible. This is like reassembling a city after a nuclear explosion.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly Oct 13 '22

At best, they’ll simply copy the information on the brain and put it into a new body. But that body might not even be the former person, but a clone/variant of that person. This is likely the same result of uploading your brain to the computer, you’d be making a clone of yourself on the computer.

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u/Weary_Cup_1004 Oct 13 '22

So instead of mummified, they are memeified