So being signed up for cryonics shifts my views on life and death, as might be expected.
In particular, it focuses my views of success on the preservation of my brain (everything else too, just in case, but especially the brain). This means, obviously, not just the lump of meat but also the information within it.
If I’m suffering a degenerative disease to that meat or its information, I’m going to want to cryocide to preserve the information (and the idea of living through slow brain death doesn’t thrill me regardless).
What I don’t know is: given the current state of science, what sorts of things do I need to be worried about?
In particular, I’m wondering about Alzheimer’s; does it appear to be damage to the information, or to the retrieval mechanism?
But any other such diseases interest me in this context.
What deserves cryocide?
So being signed up for cryonics shifts my views on life and death, as might be expected.
In particular, it focuses my views of success on the preservation of my brain (everything else too, just in case, but especially the brain). This means, obviously, not just the lump of meat but also the information within it.
If I’m suffering a degenerative disease to that meat or its information, I’m going to want to cryocide to preserve the information (and the idea of living through slow brain death doesn’t thrill me regardless).
What I don’t know is: given the current state of science, what sorts of things do I need to be worried about?
In particular, I’m wondering about Alzheimer’s; does it appear to be damage to the information, or to the retrieval mechanism?
But any other such diseases interest me in this context.
Thanks!
-Robin