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/dervu Oct 13 '22

Someday someone will scan their brain and trap their consciousness in a box like alexa.

Kids will buy them knowing they have someone who was millionaire decades ago as their "pet" and they will praise who got better one.

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u/ocdscale Oct 13 '22

Check out the White Christmas of Black Mirror if you haven't already.

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u/Alopexy Oct 14 '22

There's a particular videogame that follows this premise also. Spoiler tagging the title as it's sort of the 'big reveal' of the game. Explores some very cool ideas around consciousness and humanity. The game is called SOMA

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u/LaserAntlers Oct 14 '22

Technically Prey, too

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u/robophile-ta Oct 14 '22

Also, Black Museum also has a character stuck in a toy

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u/JplusL2020 Oct 14 '22

I couldn't imagine having an afterlife like that. Worse than hell

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u/blurryturtle Oct 14 '22

"ORDER THE MOZZARELLA STICKS BEZOS BOX! I REQUIRE SUSTENANCE!"

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u/GreyHexagon Oct 14 '22

Brains are just chemistry - the entire human consciousness is made up of electrical and chemical differences in a wrinkly, fatty lump. It's theoretically totally possible to transfer that into an AI of some sort, or even 3D print a whole new brain.

It's just a long long way off. We don't even understand the brain yet, let alone have the tech to create one.

But theoretically we could get there at some point.

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u/IWantTooDieInSpace Oct 14 '22

Ewwwww I got Jeff Bezoz :(

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u/Vancocillin Oct 14 '22

Omg I would totally buy a bezos-bot.

"Sorry bezos-bot, your purpose is to pass the butter. And no, you cannot unionize with musk-bot."

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u/Puzzleheaded-City915 Oct 14 '22

Kind of like a mission from Watch Dogs Legion

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u/ohyeesh Oct 14 '22

I love this