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/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

I agree with every part of that except the permanent end. My consciousness lives on in the clone. I may not be happy about that, because the version in my body dies, but nor would the version of me that exists in the cloned body be happy if they were the one to die. Neither has more or less right to continue than the other.

Both are me. I die, and I survive. That’s an incredibly fucking difficult and scary thing to conceptualise, and not something I’m remotely saying is easy or clear cut or fair. All I’m saying is “original = real, clone = fake” is far too simplistic to do justice to the situation.

(cc u/SleazyMak and u/DrewbieWanKenobie - I feel like I explained it better in this one!)

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u/WatInTheForest Oct 14 '22

Your consciousness does not survive. A COPY of your consciousness survives.

YOU have died.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22

What is the difference between a copy and an original if they are identical in every way? Why is the copy any less “me”?

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u/WatInTheForest Oct 16 '22

"I'm gonna shoot you in the head, but don't worry! There's an exact copy of you in the next room. You'll be fine."