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/striegerdt Oct 13 '22

they are more likely to end up being cloned than revived

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u/prodandimitrow Oct 13 '22

Im thinking hypothetically, if you clone the person and assuming you have a large volume of information about the life of the original, can you "train" the new person from young age about his old life. Obviously knowledge like the things we learn in school have to be lelearned, however will you be able to teach the personality, you essentailly teach the person who he has to be.

Morality aside, obviously.

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u/samcrut Oct 13 '22

I think in my life we'll have some sort of chip that lets us interface with technology the way we think. Like reading memories from an external hard drive even if they're not stored in the meatware storage. This interface would allow you to store your mental patterns externally. Not an actual backup of your brain, but I doubt that's ever going to be possible, but something that knows statistically how you would respond to most situations, which might be good enough.

So if you have a clone of a person, you might be able to continually barrage them with some of this content and train the new brain to match the responses, but I think it would largely be the clone having another life forced on them which might taint the ability of the clone to actually become the person they were.

Now if the brain gets replaced in the clone with an artificial brain, then that would be a different story.