Carinthium comments on Lesswrong Philosophy and Personal Identity - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Carinthium 23 August 2013 01:15PM

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Comment author: Carinthium 25 August 2013 11:33:59AM 0 points [-]

Why is this so, given that both ordinary reproduction and culturally transmission would mean the loss of a lot of details about yourself? Your genetic code, for a start.

Comment author: torekp 25 August 2013 05:47:37PM 2 points [-]

True. The answer is complex, but rather than writing a book, I'll just say that on reflection, a lot of details about myself don't matter to me any more. They still matter to my unreflective System 1 thought and emotion processes, but cryonics was never very attractive to System 1 in the first place.