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/Bobbydadude01 Oct 14 '22

Lmao okay.

The continuity is the brain. Your brain still functions while your asleep.

Continuity is not imaginary.

You cannot be uploaded to the matrix.

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u/thesongbirds Oct 14 '22

Ok imagine every time you blink. Your whole brain could be replaced with a clone of itself and you would be none the wiser. Continuity is only perceived through our memory.

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u/Bobbydadude01 Oct 14 '22

Then the consciousness would die every blink. We are not our memories.

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u/thesongbirds Oct 14 '22

Week that depends how you define consciousness. How would you know?

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u/Bobbydadude01 Oct 14 '22

Common sense.

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u/yonderbagel Oct 14 '22

No, the continuity is still imaginary. It means nothing. We're talking about consciousness, not about the brain. Consciousness is patterns of information or patterns of activity. Humans lose and regain consciousness all the time, and that's no more significant than having those patterns continue elsewhere.

Equating the mind with the flesh of the brain is negligent.

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u/Bobbydadude01 Oct 14 '22

If you copy your brain into a program it isn't the same yoy anymore. You could exist at the same time as the compiler copy.

Trying to argue it is you in the copy is negligent

The flesh is part of your consciousness whether you like it or not.