X-Message-Number: 32875 References: <> From: Gerald Monroe <> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:33:06 -0500 Subject: Re: CryoNet #32870 - #32874 --001636457d789d01ef04913a6b2b Synchronization solves the 99 duplicates problem, as well as most of the other ones. The technical mechanism for synchronization would be nanoscale sensors and computing devices buried in the myelin sheaths for the synapses. A network of these devices would monitor stored human long term memories processed by the hippocampus. A data stream would be broadcast via radio in realtime to receivers located in every human habitable environment. With compression, it wouldn't be very much data : I've seen estimates comparing it to streaming a dvd. Anyways, with synchronization, if you choose to kill your 99 duplicates, at the next sync period (perhaps during when you sleep that night) you'll remember the experiences of all of the duplicates as well as yourself. From the perspective of a duplicate, your existence will also continue on smoothly as you "wake up" seamlessly merged with the original. The very premise of cryonics is that your tissues were frozen and damaged sufficiently to be considered dead, and torn apart atom by atom during the scanning process. If you can accept that upon awakening after this that you are still "you", then you could accept being murdered as a duplicate and remembering awakening again merged back with the original. --001636457d789d01ef04913a6b2b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32875