Comment on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:54:17 GMT

And for that matter, I don't really have that much feedback from me in 20 seconds from now, or me 20 seconds ago either. My current remembering self has instantaneous inclinations, some of which are predicated on memories or anticipations, but at no point am I ever really a smearing of multiple time slices of myself. (I am probably a smearing of different quantum branches of myself, though. Until those selves decohere and I incrementally discover which branch that "I" have been on "all along").

For example, what is the difference between what we would commonly call "me", and an entity whose conscious experience is the Heaviside function with argument equal to the entire description of my brain state right as I type this question mark? That version of me just started existing, but luckily had molecules and quarks in all the right places to feel and remember everything as if he's been alive for 26 years and ate tofu for dinner.

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