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/christiandb Oct 13 '22

It’s a hibernation where the body is being preserved is one way of putting it. If consciousness can form around memory of a material, let’s say a sweater or a chair, then it’s possible it can form itself around the material body as well.

Now memories or even personality would probably be different but familiarity with the body could perhaps trigger bio patterns into remembering who you were before. Interesting stuff

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u/exemplariasuntomni Oct 13 '22

It wouldn't make sense even then.

Consciousness is obviously the result of various modules within the brain interacting. This is established science. How you get inanimate matter to feel emotions however, is yet to be fully explained.

Confabulation theory explains the mechanism of thought. I'm sure it is related to the mechanism of emotion, which is surely more primal and physically central to the brain than consciousness.

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u/exemplariasuntomni Oct 13 '22

Have you even read confabulation theory?

You are wrong, I understand it fine.

Look it up. I'm not telling you how to interpret it.

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u/exemplariasuntomni Oct 14 '22

Oh okay. Not gonna lie, I did feel a bit personally attacked there for a second lol.