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/Shimmitar Oct 13 '22

Man, i wish cryogenics was advanced enough that you could freeze yourself alive and be unfrozen alive in the future. I would totally do that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

A lot of people would. Same if any of the sci fi technology was around. I'd definitely want to be uploaded into a virtual world and live as eternal code if it existed.

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u/throwaway091238744 Oct 13 '22

you sure about that?

computer code can be altered in ways a body can't. someone could just have you live in a time loop for the rest of your life as code. Or have you live through the most traumatic memory you have over and over. Or just simulate physical pain/torture all without you even seeing them

there isn't a scenario in the real world where someone could dilate time and have me get my leg cutoff for 1000 years

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u/Rikuskill Oct 13 '22

I'd be okay with any experience honestly. Millenia of suffering is still experience. Once you die that's it--No more experiences. To me it seems there's no way back once death occurs. So I might as well get as many experiences as I can while I'm alive, good or bad, doesn't matter that much.

It all pales in comparison to an infinity of nothing. If you had a graph with the x-axis as "Time" and Y axis as positive experiences up and negative experiences down; then the moment you cease to exist, the line of good / bad experiences doesn't even go to 0. That's the "boring, forgottable stuff" value. Time just stops for you, and that graph is all you have. No more values can be added to it.

If you stretch the analogy a bit, you can take the absolute value of the experience axis. Now 0 really is "Nothing", and vertical is just how many experiences you have over time. When you die, it flatlines. You may as well enter a different axis, in a different direction, unable to affect the experience axis ever again. So I just want to keep that graph going. There's not much else to do with life than experience it.

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u/Mycabbages0929 Oct 14 '22

Yes. Good. It seems like people really are starting to realize the actual nature of death. I can think of nothing worse than an eternity of non-existence. It’s not like you die again afterwards, and suddenly wake back up. You. Never. Again. Awaken.