georgepennellmartin comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: georgepennellmartin 14 November 2010 02:11:36AM 0 points [-]

I would but I keep remembering Elidier Yudkowsky's anecdote about the professor who set his student the task of creating robotic vision, it seems to me that at every turn science has underestimated the challenge ahead. Ultimately I do believe the mind will be understood completely, just that it will be too late for us.

Comment author: JGWeissman 14 November 2010 02:37:16AM 2 points [-]

Ultimately I do believe the mind will be understood completely, just that it will be too late for us.

The whole point of cryonics is to push back when it will be too late, by preserving all the information about you that someone with a general understanding the human mind could use to reinstantiate your specific human mind. You don't need to understand the revival process at the time you are frozen.