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RowanE comments on Survey: What's the most negative*plausible cryonics-works story that you know? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 December 2015 10:49:00AM 4 points [-]

Revivees wake up with the memories they went to sleep with, but a great many of them have a growing conviction that they are the wrong person. For some this "dysidentity disorder" is acute and distressing, for others, merely a curiosity that they live with. All seem to have it to some extent. Nobody knows why.

Comment author: RowanE 29 December 2015 08:49:10PM 0 points [-]

Would seem to imply memories don't make up who you are - I mean, what I'm inclined to read into it is "there are souls and they got moved around", but it could be anything - in which case, if there's a way to cause myself amnesia (and with this level tech why wouldn't there be?) I should just wipe out my memories and find out who I am. Ideally it'll also be possible to save the memories in backups somehow, or I'll have "external memory" like diaries and such, in case I start regretting the decision.