Comment on Brain Preservation

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:05:14 GMT

When a wood frog freezes itself for the winter does it unfreeze as a different frog?

You'd have to ask the wood frog. If the wood frog were to ponder its own existence, it would be a different frog. In both cases, human and frog, it's the same body before and after freezing. Note, frogs do freeze themselves and still function afterward, humans don't. Humans have a lot of their energy invested in cognitive functions and they don't act quite the same without it, and that's what freezing demolishes.

What? If your friends asked questions to both you and your Sims 3 replica, you think they wouldn't be able to tell which was which? It's clearly not anywhere close to a copy of you.

The best answer to this would be to not reply, that would be highly amusing, but aside from that, I hope you understood that I meant in the Sims World, that is how I would react. Sims don't even need to breath air, they don't have lungs. Given the somewhat different conditions in Pleasant Valley, Sims have somewhat different requirements than humans. If I modified my human body to become a Sim, then I would be exactly what I designed there.

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