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orthonormal comments on Link - total body transplant - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 14 January 2011 04:41AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 16 January 2011 09:33:56PM 0 points [-]

Incidentally, I suspect that this was downvoted for starting an argument over definitions. (The downvotes weren't mine, FYI.)

Comment author: icebrand 05 February 2011 03:42:28PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the information. Edited out. The main issue I had with the original comment was that it seemed to assume everyone would agree with a specific, vastly oversimplified definition of organic death. In reality organic death is a process that happens over a long period of time and has not happened completely by the time the brain reaches LN2 temperatures in ideal circumstances. It could easily be reversible via biological means.