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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
I guess I think of it like I would a clone
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I agree, but that's how I think of my future self waking up in the morning. There is no enduring metaphysical ego, when you bang your head you're not the same person. My guess is that the first people revived will be very imperfect, maybe equivalent to a hundred bangs on the head.
good enough technology should be able to reverse the damage caused by our primitive vitrification. And in principle we should be able to perfectly recreate a brain as it was at any instant of time.
I agree with your concerns regarding mental illness/bringing something back that will suffer.
I don't think anyone will be revived as they are currently, it would be cruel.
Re : risk taking in the future when you live a bazillion years, driving a car and walking across a street will be seen as the equivalent of using yourself as sharkbait.
I'm not motivated by my impending doom, i'm an eternalist and it's quite possible that our worst (and best) experiences exist perpetually. If possible I would like to make these experiences blissful, and if that means shedding the "old me" to become something else then so be it.
I'm not going to be signing up for cryonics, but for those (with a false theory of identity lawl) that want to live forever it should be available.
No one wants to be cryopreserved over age reversal if possible, I don't think anyone over the age of x will reap the benefits of age reversal, and that x could include ourselves. we need a twin track approach to accommodate for everyone.
We need a thread dedicated to life extension, and another for pills and potions.
I'm all for super longevity, it's one of the three main strands of transhumanism just as long as we aren't prolonging suffering.
I sometimes give an example of a person on a demon planet being tortured for a really long time, a lot of transhumanists who focus on longevity seem blind to the fact that hedonic tone is what matters and that's why I think it's important to stress super well-being.
Have you looked into the work of biogerontologist Aubrey De Grey? I'll explain what he wants to do via diagram, I think you'll find it interesting.
I think we will be able to put our minds into other organic bodies/spaceships/anything but it isn't going to be like anything at all without quantum mind binding.
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