Also, transhumans will presumably judge the same way, and decide that it’s not worth it to research reviving you when they could be working on a Dyson Sphere or something.
Diverse transhumans will have diverse interests. Your inclination to think everyone in the future will all focus on one big project to the exclusion of all else is predicted by near/far theory.
Frankly, from what we know about cognitive science, most of the really useful information about your personality is going to disappear upon freezing anyway.
We know it does not disappear when electrical signals cease in the brain due to hypoxia and hypothermia. Furthermore if you look at vitrified brain tissue through an electron microscope you can see the neurons still connected to each other, which is definitely information. Useful? I’m betting it is.
You are a PROCESS, not a STATE; as such, freezing you will destroy you, unless we’ve somehow kept track of all the motions in your brain that would need to be restarted. … quantum … Preserving a human consciousness is like trying to freeze a hurricane.
Your speculation here has been empirically falsified already by the hypothermia cases I just mentioned. Human consciousness routinely stops and resumes no worse for the wear, during sleep and anesthesia.
There’s nothing precluding it being both a process and a state, in fact every process on my computer has a state that can be saved and resumed. If you are computer-literate, I don’t see why you would think this is much of an argument.
There is also lots of empirical evidence that the brain is an orderly system, not a random one like a hurricane. (This is important if we have to do repairs.)
TLDR with some rhetoric: I’ve seen too many frozen strawberries to believe in cryonics.
Were they vitrified strawberries? Important difference there.
Diverse transhumans will have diverse interests. Your inclination to think everyone in the future will all focus on one big project to the exclusion of all else is predicted by near/far theory.
We know it does not disappear when electrical signals cease in the brain due to hypoxia and hypothermia. Furthermore if you look at vitrified brain tissue through an electron microscope you can see the neurons still connected to each other, which is definitely information. Useful? I’m betting it is.
Your speculation here has been empirically falsified already by the hypothermia cases I just mentioned. Human consciousness routinely stops and resumes no worse for the wear, during sleep and anesthesia.
There’s nothing precluding it being both a process and a state, in fact every process on my computer has a state that can be saved and resumed. If you are computer-literate, I don’t see why you would think this is much of an argument.
There is also lots of empirical evidence that the brain is an orderly system, not a random one like a hurricane. (This is important if we have to do repairs.)
Were they vitrified strawberries? Important difference there.