<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 8:22 PM Travis Porco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm more looking for<br>
"good enough, right now". I'd like to see as much of the 'narrative<br>
self' preserved, in any format, using<br>
any substrate, with a hope of further growth or regrowth later. What<br>
are the limits on the "minimalist" side?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Minimalist with hope of regrowth back to the full self? Right now, that's just cryonics. Nothing less expensive than that gives something that future technology can theoretically build on (short of time travel to observe and/or extract from you while you were still alive).</div><div><br></div><div>Minimalist without that hope? Let someone else tell your story. It's not just free, but people will do that anyway. It's what a lot of people settle for, when they speak of "immortality", but I say it doesn't deserve that label.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I<br>
suspect that the insect connectome work will lead someone in<br>
the right direction.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So do I. Probably the best hope for someone about to die today, is to get frozen with the best preservation affordable on the budget available, in the hopes that future technology extending from this research will eventually make restoration from said frozen archive possible - and that whoever maintains the archive will follow through on their ancestors' promise to restore you once it becomes possible.</div></div></div>