however it could also be less ‘manageable’ that I thought
That is countering evidence with an appeal to ignorance. The point is that theories claiming the complexity and fragility are more manageable assign a higher prior probability to the event of human minds evolving, and thus, by Bayes’ Theorem, observing that human minds have actually evolved, you should assign higher probability to the theories that claim more manageability.
I would but I keep remembering Elidier Yudkowsky’s anecdote about the professor who set his student the task of creating robotic vision, it seems to me that at every turn science has underestimated the challenge ahead. Ultimately I do believe the mind will be understood completely, just that it will be too late for us.
Ultimately I do believe the mind will be understood completely, just that it will be too late for us.
The whole point of cryonics is to push back when it will be too late, by preserving all the information about you that someone with a general understanding the human mind could use to reinstantiate your specific human mind. You don’t need to understand the revival process at the time you are frozen.
That is countering evidence with an appeal to ignorance. The point is that theories claiming the complexity and fragility are more manageable assign a higher prior probability to the event of human minds evolving, and thus, by Bayes’ Theorem, observing that human minds have actually evolved, you should assign higher probability to the theories that claim more manageability.
I would but I keep remembering Elidier Yudkowsky’s anecdote about the professor who set his student the task of creating robotic vision, it seems to me that at every turn science has underestimated the challenge ahead. Ultimately I do believe the mind will be understood completely, just that it will be too late for us.
The whole point of cryonics is to push back when it will be too late, by preserving all the information about you that someone with a general understanding the human mind could use to reinstantiate your specific human mind. You don’t need to understand the revival process at the time you are frozen.