Cryonics is not a discussion that's primarily about biology. A lot of outsider will want to either think that cryonics works or that it doesn't. On LW there a current that we don't make binary judgements like that but instead reason with probabilities. So thinking that there a 20% chance that cryonics works is enough for people to go out and buy cryonics insurance because of the huge value that cryonics has if it succeeds. That's radically different than most people outside of LW think.
Cryonics is not a discussion that's primarily about biology.
Well, the biological aspect is "where exactly in the body is 'me' located"?
For example, many people on LW seem to assume that the whole 'me' is in the head; so you can just freeze the head, and feed the rest to the worms. Maybe that's a wrong idea; maybe the 'me' is much more distributed in the body, and the head is merely a coordinating organ, plus a center of a few things that need to work really fast. Maybe if the future science will revive the head and connect it to some cloned/ar...
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