[ExI] Cryonics a theory or belief?

[spike]

On Behalf Of John Grigg
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	The damage to frozen human tissue is so severe at the temperatures
involved in cryonics, that reversing them and restoring a person to life is
*currently* totally beyond conventional science.  It is the dream of
cryonicists to be able to bring a frozen person back to full health and reap
the social and financial rewards, but that time is still a long way off...
John Grigg



Johnny, here is your chance to introduce the more techno-savvy vision of
modern cryonicists.  The notion is not so much to figure out how to restore
the damaged tissue, but rather to read the condition of the damaged tissue,
then (by some currently mysterious means) calculate it's condition before it
was frozen, then either duplicate that undamaged configuration in another
lump of carbon or (more likely) simulate that brain configuration in
software on a very capable computer.  Then the individual lives again (in a
sense) in a holodeck existence.  This brand of cryonics has the same kinds
of fundamental issue that Religion Incorporated faces, the identity
question: is the resurrected you you?  If not, then who?  

This being said, those of us who buy into these scenarios should be
understanding of those who just say no.  They don't want that.  But we may
be able to simulate them somehow, from collective memories and recordings of
that person.

spike