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Comment author: lsparrish 05 August 2011 11:33:29PM 2 points [-]

The argument is not that everything that seems possible is inevitable. Rather it is that this particular area of possibility-space is a generally reasonable one given a reasonably allowable timeframe for cryonics patients to be stored. Current advances in printing organs, scanning connectomes, building nanomachinery, etc. are pretty good indirect evidence of that -- provided the loss of structure isn't excessive.