Kaj_Sotala comments on Is cryonics necessary?: Writing yourself into the future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 25 June 2010 06:16:39AM 3 points [-]

Presumably those memories affect your behavior somehow, though. A superintelligence might be able to re-create, if not the same memories, then functionally equivalent ones. Whether it was capable of doing so depends on how much information of your behavior is retained.

On the other hand, if those memories don't affect your behavior, then that implies that they're not essential for rebuilding something we could call "you".