If I want to sell my great-grandmother on cryonics, “freezing your brain so in centuries it can be transplanted into a young body” sounds like an easier sell than “freezing your brain so in centuries it can be turned into a robot”. Freezing her whole body sounds like an instant, understandable no.
Being trapped in an old body sucks. Extrapolating contemporary medicine forward until we can unfreeze the cryopreserved elderly and keep them from dying is not a great prospect.
If I want to sell my great-grandmother on cryonics, “freezing your brain so in centuries it can be transplanted into a young body” sounds like an easier sell than “freezing your brain so in centuries it can be turned into a robot”. Freezing her whole body sounds like an instant, understandable no.
Really? The plausibility ordering is “transplant to new body > become robot > revive old body”?
I would have guessed it would be “revive old body > transplant to new body > become robot”.
Am I missing something?
Being trapped in an old body sucks. Extrapolating contemporary medicine forward until we can unfreeze the cryopreserved elderly and keep them from dying is not a great prospect.