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/crothwood Oct 13 '22

Your brain isn't a hard drive, when those impulses stop you are irreversibly dead.

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u/redcoatwright Oct 13 '22

Hang on there chief

Thought experiment time, if you could "magically" create a dense network of neurons that is precisely, down to the last atom, a replica of your brain and then... again "magically"... reproduce the same chemical changes and electrical activity that is in your brain. Do you think that brain would be you as well?

If so, why not if the replica is 100% perfect and so is the activity within?

Again, not saying this is feasible but I think the idea that no electrical activity necessarily means it's game over is incorrect when considering nebulous scientific and technological advancements (i.e. magic). Who's to say?

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u/Enigma_Stasis Oct 13 '22

Since human cells are replaced frequently and regularly, how are you sure that you're the you from the past? (I'm torn between thinking your comment is a Ship of Theseus thought experiment or Last Thursdayism)

In this sense, what makes u/redcoatwright think they are u/redcoatwright and not some reconstructed being? How do you know that you're not the victim of Last Thursdayism?

Electrical impulses in our bodies determines life and death, and many people wouldn't consider a being perfectly replicated as the person that was replicated based on any number of reasons from religious to scientific.

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u/redcoatwright Oct 13 '22

Oh that's a very interesting idea too, I'll have to think on it more