On thing that strikes me: has anyone told you about information theoretic death vs. legal death?
The idea of somebody being information-theoretically alive is simply that if their brain is in a state such that you could read it with some kind of advanced technology (e.g. advanced nanotech) and logically infer what their brain used to be like before they died, which would then allow you to repair the brain atom-by-atom.
The difference between information theoretic death and what we would call medical or legal death is that legal death changes over time as technology gets better.
Information theoretic death is what cryonicists care about.
On thing that strikes me: has anyone told you about information theoretic death vs. legal death?
The idea of somebody being information-theoretically alive is simply that if their brain is in a state such that you could read it with some kind of advanced technology (e.g. advanced nanotech) and logically infer what their brain used to be like before they died, which would then allow you to repair the brain atom-by-atom.
The difference between information theoretic death and what we would call medical or legal death is that legal death changes over time as technology gets better.
Information theoretic death is what cryonicists care about.