I don’t want to sign up for cryonics because I’m afraid I will be revived brain-damaged. But maybe others are worried they will have the social status of a freak in that future society.
Not that I am willing to sign up for cryonics but I don’t see this as a problem.
Presumably some monkeys will be placed on ice at some point in the testing of defrosting and you will not be defrosted until they are sure that the defrosting side does not cause brain damage. Also presumably there should be some way of determining if brain damage has occurred before defrosting happens and hopefully no one is defrosted that has brain damage until a way to fix the brain damage has been discovered.
I suppose that if the brain damage could be fixed you might lose some important information which does leave the question if you are still you. However if you believe that you are still yourself with the addition of new information, such as is received each day just by living, then you should likewise believe that you will still be yourself if information is lost. Also one of the assumptions of Cryogenics is that the human lifespan will have been greatly expanded so if you have major amnesia from the freezing you can look at it as trading your current life up to the point of freezing for one that is many multiple in length.
This is assuming that cryogenics works as intended, of which point I am not convinced of.
I don’t want to sign up for cryonics because I’m afraid I will be revived brain-damaged. But maybe others are worried they will have the social status of a freak in that future society.
Not that I am willing to sign up for cryonics but I don’t see this as a problem.
Presumably some monkeys will be placed on ice at some point in the testing of defrosting and you will not be defrosted until they are sure that the defrosting side does not cause brain damage. Also presumably there should be some way of determining if brain damage has occurred before defrosting happens and hopefully no one is defrosted that has brain damage until a way to fix the brain damage has been discovered.
I suppose that if the brain damage could be fixed you might lose some important information which does leave the question if you are still you. However if you believe that you are still yourself with the addition of new information, such as is received each day just by living, then you should likewise believe that you will still be yourself if information is lost. Also one of the assumptions of Cryogenics is that the human lifespan will have been greatly expanded so if you have major amnesia from the freezing you can look at it as trading your current life up to the point of freezing for one that is many multiple in length.
This is assuming that cryogenics works as intended, of which point I am not convinced of.