X-Message-Number: 3606 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 18:39:09 -0500 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: Re: SCI.CRYONICS: Uploading yourself I do not understand Parfit's point. Why wouldn't both methods leave one alive and well? > The time, money , and effort of the cryonics organizations in > preservation is evidence that they want to reverse suspension > to return the same brain to consciousness, I believe it's actually because it's currently much easier to freeze a brain than to analyze it and store the information on CD-roms. > and not to preserve the source just to destroy it so that some clone > may live. A "clone" is a being with identical genetic code, but not with identical memories, thoughts, aspirations, or experiences. If you have an "identical twin," they are your clone. Nobody has suggested that growing a clone of someone in suspension would be a satisfactory termination of the suspension. I don't particularly care if my repaired brain has the same atoms or different atoms than the original, or whether they're replaced a few at a time or all at once, or whether there's a period when the information that specifies me exists only as patterns on a CD-rom, magtape, or whatever. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3606