A view on cryonics (was Re: [extropy-chat] Bad Forecasts!)

[Acy James Stapp]

Perhaps Slawomir feels that part of his 'identity' is encoded in the
dynamics of moving chemicals and charges and that this dynamical
information is lost during cryopreservation.

I would tend to think that this is only a small fraction of the
information encoded in brain making up the mind.

Acy

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"Slawomir Paliwoda" <velvethum at hotmail.com>

> How would it feel to be the copy? It would feel exactly
> the same as being the original.

Yes, with emphasis on the word "exactly".

> That doesn't mean I would be the original.

OK, but if so then using nothing but your own words above I conclude
that
the distinction between the words "Copy" and "Original" is of trivial
importance and not worth bothering about.

> Your memories and mental abilities are merely your data, or *pattern*

Merely?! Besides than Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the play?