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I would but I keep remembering Elidier Yudkowsky's anecdote about the professor who set his student the task of creating robotic vision, it seems to me that at every turn science has underestimated the challenge ahead. Ultimately I do believe the mind will be understood completely, just that it will be too late for us.
Problem is that would also decrease the chances of you ultimately being revived, why would they bring you back to life if they have billions to choose from? Also the price of cryonics would probably skyrocket as fridge space ran out...etc through the law of diminishing returns meaning your corpse would be turfed out by new rich clients as soon as cryonics became popular. Think about it, what moral obligations would future generations have to revive you anyway? You'd be nothing but a resource sink with antiquated skills. No offence
Yes your right, however it could also be less 'manageable' that I thought, I don't believe science has reached the stage where we can know yet which it is. Perhaps I'm being a bit too pessimistic however. In the meantime I'll try and keep an open mind.
Thats very interesting, its obvious that cryonics isn't just a pseudoscience. But I can't see how a brain's electrical impulses and ongoing chemical reactions would be preserved and restarted, if they were ceased.
Probably, if only because it would make a great conversation starter
I wouldn't say surprising as much but amazing and awe-inspiring definetly. That the human mind could be created without intent but simple trial and error is (ironically) miraculous
I have read a few articles but mostly it was pure common sense. The death and freezing for probably over a century of your brain, would be traumatic. Information would inevitably be lost.
Would make me a lot poorer while alive though, money I could have used to better enjoy what little time I have on earth or even spend it to make life better for others
Speaking as a childless teenager, i'm a cryonics atheist, i don't believe it will ever be possible to revive a deceased, frozen human being. The human mind is too complex and fragile. The only reason I would ever sign up for cryonics would be in a Pascal's wager sort of way, in which case I may as well accept Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour at the same time. It's all false hope.