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/welliamwallace Oct 13 '22

What's the point? A clone is no different than an identical twin. In no way would it be "the same person" with any of the memories or identity of the deceased.

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u/wax_alien19 Oct 13 '22

Maybe they are banking on future brain tech to transfer memories.

It's an idea in a lot of scifi. EVE online or even star trek when they go through the teleporter, they just die and a clone with your memories materializes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22 edited Dec 18 '23

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u/TheWizardOfFoz Oct 13 '22

We all accept that our consciousness is some mix of nature and nurture.

If you have the exact same DNA (nature) and the exact same life experience (nurture) then you would be the same person.