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

[John K Clark]

"Brett Paatsch" <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au>

> the rebuttal to this is trivial. They are not actually
> occupying the  same space simply by being interlaced.

Refuting the notion that location of the brain is the key to identity hardly
seems necessary as the mind need not, and in fact usually does not, have the
slightest idea how the brain works, and in fact the mind may not even know
where the brain is; however if you insist on a  physical counterexample,
simply replace the ions in the human brain and the electrons in most
computers for different computational elements, photons, you can put
billions of photons in the same place at the same time and they won’t mind a
bit. That means lots of brains at the same place at the same time. If you
nevertheless insist that location will explain everything then you will have
to do what so many others in this discussion have done, invent new laws of
physics.

  John K Clark     jonkc at att.net