-This would require both an enormous amount of time spent meticulously documenting your experiences (most of which would be mundane), and incredible writing skill to be able to capture various nuances of emotion. The number of people who are able to satisfy both these conditions may be less than the number who will sign up for cryonics.
-It’s not clear to me that there’s any consistent way to translate the written expression of a memory (particularly an emotional memory) into a mental state, partially because...
-I’m not sure writing is a fine-grained enough tool to capture a person’s mental state.
-As nickernst stated, a large (perhaps most) of what makes up my mental state isn’t stored in the form of memories I can access.
A few thoughts:
-This would require both an enormous amount of time spent meticulously documenting your experiences (most of which would be mundane), and incredible writing skill to be able to capture various nuances of emotion. The number of people who are able to satisfy both these conditions may be less than the number who will sign up for cryonics.
-It’s not clear to me that there’s any consistent way to translate the written expression of a memory (particularly an emotional memory) into a mental state, partially because...
-I’m not sure writing is a fine-grained enough tool to capture a person’s mental state.
-As nickernst stated, a large (perhaps most) of what makes up my mental state isn’t stored in the form of memories I can access.