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The False Science of Cryonics
What the nervous system of the roundworm tells us about freezing brains and reanimating human minds.
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We are still very far from anything even close to resembling cryonics and the uploading of a human mind. We have a much better chance at making decent life extension work.
or just: We have a much better chance at making decent life–
I wish they had more discussed the complications of reanimating the original body rather than uploading consciousness it to a new one. I think most people know that we're incredibly far from that. A lot of people have themselves cryogenically preserved so that they can be reanimated after a cure has been found for whatever ails them, not so that they can be uploaded to a computer mainframe. Still interesting, nonetheless.
Walt disney's frozen head-jokes are older than I am and always gave me nightmares > reassurance h+ promised. and I think h+ had the booth next to the jehovah's witnesses at the big e, and guess who gave out candy?
Well, that's depressing.
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