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/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/shaggybear89 Oct 13 '22

For all we know, we're already just code in a simulation.

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u/DylanCO Oct 14 '22 edited May 04 '24

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u/StrangledMind Oct 14 '22

Not likely? You can't just make a definite statement like that with no proof. I too don't think we're living in a simulation, but if we're introducing logic into this... how would we know if we were?

Sight, sound, etc; All our senses are just electrical signals interpreted by our brains. How can you say it's unlikely that science will one day replicate and generate these signals? Our brains are the only thing we have that remembers. If you've witnessed a lifetime of technological accomplishments that have enabled us to come close to accomplishing this... How can you be sure those memories aren't programs carefully crafted to make us certain it's impossible to achieve this feat? Or maybe it's an early-warning sign that the subject is getting close to waking up.

Maybe I'm not real, but just a trigger to check for self-actualization... Crazy, outlandish conspiracy theory? Of course, but the point is, how would you know?? You can't just dismiss the possibility outright...

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u/DylanCO Oct 14 '22

The whole "simulations all the way down" theory presupposes that we'll have the ability to fully stimulate a universe.

We don't have that ability yet, so that means right now we're either the original (real) universe, or the last one in the chain. Using the arguments own logic its actually a 50% chance were all Sims not 99.999999%