MatthewB comments on Reference class of the unclassreferenceable - Less Wrong
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Yes... They interact quite a bit (the brain and the rest of the universe)... Then what am I doing investing in a technology that gives me the best chance of recovering the pattern within that brain?
I get the point, but the interaction between the brain and the rest of the universe is not likely to leave a durable pattern upon the universe of the pattern in the brain. I am open to being wrong about that.
Because of our uncertainty about how much information is preserved and how easy it is to reconstruct. Cryonics is the most conservative option.