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MartinB comments on Cryonics and the importance of body to cognition - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: lukeprog 12 March 2011 05:21AM

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Comment author: MartinB 12 March 2011 07:12:38AM 0 points [-]

If you change the sensory equipment you change the person. Blinding, othe handicaps do that, but you can also tack on new sensory. Like a compass. But is not that still better than not being?

It would be awesome to stay alive, even if the body needs a make over.