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The_Jaded_One comments on The Brain Preservation Foundation's Small Mammalian Brain Prize won - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: gwern 09 February 2016 09:02PM

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Comment author: The_Jaded_One 22 February 2016 03:09:26PM 0 points [-]

'yeah, maybe there's a perfect copy, but it'll never really be you, it's only a copy waking up'.

Not everyone buys into this philosophical point of view, and if continuity of identity were the only technical objection left, I think that hundreds of thousands of rich, well-educated people with a scientific mindset would sign up.

I think that lingering doubts about whether preservation actually works are still a significant barrier in the "filter funnel" of cryonics.