jkaufman comments on How Likely Is Cryonics To Work? - Less Wrong

18 Post author: jkaufman 25 September 2011 11:38PM

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Comment author: jkaufman 26 September 2011 04:05:42PM * 2 points [-]

0.20 Not all of what makes you you is encoded in the physical state of the brain

Why so high?

How sure are we that electrical information is not important? That the neurons in other parts of your body are not very important?

Comment author: CarlShulman 26 September 2011 10:09:12PM * 8 points [-]

How sure are we that electrical information is not important?

Brain electrical activity can collapse to undetectable levels and be recovered from.

That the neurons in other parts of your body are not very important?

One can think about amputees and the like, and your own degree of attachment to certain kinds of muscle memory, etc.

Comment author: jkaufman 27 September 2011 10:45:12AM 2 points [-]

Ok. I've revised my probability down to 2%. Updated in the google doc. Thanks!

Comment author: jkaufman 27 September 2011 01:18:03AM * 0 points [-]

be from?

Comment author: CarlShulman 27 September 2011 01:34:45AM 0 points [-]

Mangled link.