I still have my doubts about cryonics. I believe people here are a bit too optimistic about the future. How confident are you that the “molecular nanotechnology” necessary to repair cells will be developed within 100 or 200 years? If Alcor had been founded in 1800, would it have survived the industrial revolution and both world wars?
About neuropreservation, is it that easy to grow a new body? I mean, there is a big difference between just fixing some broken cells and completely creating a whole body. Even if it’s possible, it’ll probably be much more expensive (and thus you’ll be less likely to get revived). And unless the new body is exactly like the old one, your motor system will be screwed up.
And you need rejuvenation technology too. Alcor claims that “By the time it becomes possible to revive cryonics patients, especially today’s cryonics patients, biological aging as we know it today will not exist”. I don’t know how likely that is, but there is a difference between stopping aging and rejuvenating. What if they find a simple DNA mutation that stops aging, but it can only be applied before birth? In the worst case you’ll wake up and die again a few weeks later. You may be lucky and only have to spend a few decades in a 90-year-old body.
I still have my doubts about cryonics. I believe people here are a bit too optimistic about the future. How confident are you that the “molecular nanotechnology” necessary to repair cells will be developed within 100 or 200 years? If Alcor had been founded in 1800, would it have survived the industrial revolution and both world wars?
About neuropreservation, is it that easy to grow a new body? I mean, there is a big difference between just fixing some broken cells and completely creating a whole body. Even if it’s possible, it’ll probably be much more expensive (and thus you’ll be less likely to get revived). And unless the new body is exactly like the old one, your motor system will be screwed up.
And you need rejuvenation technology too. Alcor claims that “By the time it becomes possible to revive cryonics patients, especially today’s cryonics patients, biological aging as we know it today will not exist”. I don’t know how likely that is, but there is a difference between stopping aging and rejuvenating. What if they find a simple DNA mutation that stops aging, but it can only be applied before birth? In the worst case you’ll wake up and die again a few weeks later. You may be lucky and only have to spend a few decades in a 90-year-old body.