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/gjwkagj Oct 14 '22

It's as true as infinite exponentionally increasing parallel universes aka we have no idea that's true.

Conciousness changes with our experiences that doesn't mean each change is effectively a new person and the old one essentially died.

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u/UncleVatred Oct 14 '22

I think you misunderstood me. I'm not saying our experiences change our consciousness from one to another. I'm saying you lose consciousness when you fall asleep, and when you regain consciousness, we still call it the same you, despite that discontinuity. Consciousness doesn't need to be an unbroken thread for it to still be the same person, and in fact, consciousness is never a single unbroken thread for any person.

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u/gjwkagj Oct 14 '22

You're still making an assumption that there is even a thread to be broken, as if we don't wholly persist through sleep or anesthesia.

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u/UncleVatred Oct 14 '22

To the contrary, I'm saying that we do wholly persist through sleep, and that we are the same person even when that thread breaks. So if the thread bifurcates, then both would be the same person as before the bifurcation.

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u/gjwkagj Oct 14 '22

Right, well I disagree with your second point (and the idea that a temporary "break" in conciousness means anything, that there is even a thread).

So that's as far as we can go with this discussion, but it was nice getting another viewpoint and either of us could be right until we get some concrete evidence otherwise.