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.

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