kalla724 comments on Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kalla724 13 May 2012 10:10:28PM 22 points [-]

I don't believe so. Distortion of the membranes and replacement of solvent irretrievably destroys information that I believe to be essential to the structure of the mind. I don't think that would ever be readable into anything but a pale copy of the original person, no matter what kind of technological advance occurs (information simply isn't there to be read, regardless of how advanced the reader may be).