[extropy-chat] Re: Identity and becoming a Great Old One

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Bret Kulakovich wrote:
> 
> Not counting the lapse between shutdown and restart spent inert. So 
> cryonics could be arguably threaded or patterned - I don't think we'll 
> know until it happens. The bulb is out for a very long time before the 
> power is restored.

What difference does it make if it is 10^40 planck increments between 
when your neurons fire, or 10^53 planck increments between your cryonic 
suspension and revival?  You and your wacky anthropomorphic notions 
about "short times" and "long times".  To physics your brain is a 
motionless statue with neurons firing only on a timescale of aeons. 
Even so, you live.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence