[extropy-chat] Cryonics and uploading

[Heartland]

> Here is a brief quote from: http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic491.htm
>
>  Montes and Conn reported ECS after near-drowning in a child aged two
>  and a half years. The child had CPR for 30 minutes, was placed on
>  a mechanical ventilator, had initial decerebration, and was then
>  paralyzed with pancuronium. Phenobarbital was loaded intravenously,
>  and a core temperature of 35°C was documented. Two hours later, an EEG
>  was performed and described as flat in all leads. Ten hours later, EEG
>  activity reappeared and the patient went on to recover fully. The
>  authors suggested allowing 24 hours of observation after near-drowning
>  before declaring brain death in children.
>
> We have here a case where there was no brain activity, followed by
> full recovery.
>
> Hypothermia seems to be protective in such circumstances, hence the
> desire for a cryonics patient to be cooled quickly.
>
>>>> In other words, original life can only exist for a single session
>>>> which means that as soon as you die, you stay dead forever.
>>>> [...]
>>>> Slawomir
>
> The case above seems to contradict this.
>
> -eric

My point is that the restored mind would be of the same *type* as the 
original, but it wouldn't be the same *instance* of the original mind. In 
other words, the original mind is permanently dead and a revived mind is 
merely a perfect duplicate. This doesn't contradict your referenced example.

Slawomir