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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by jobigoud on Friday April 29, 2016 @04:36AM (#11594447)
If you make a perfect copy, the identity has branched. There are now two distinct entities (with continuity) that are starting to diverge, why would any of them accept to be shot?
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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by tfm on Friday April 29, 2016 @04:52AM (#11594493)
... not to mention, each of them might feel some small measure of empathy for the other!

What if one did this regularly? Would battle-hardened cloners become insensitive to "retirement" of their doppelgangers, or as the last survivor of the series of slayings would they start to feel hunted?

Really feels at least a few centuries too early to even gauge whether it is possible to substantially capture (let alone reproduce) the state of a brain. Sure would be disappointing if it turned out you could get 90% of the functionality with a ten-state DFA featuring frowning and pooping, but it would make cryonics a whole lot easier. "Just leave me enough brainstem to get home."

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Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout by FeepingCreature on Friday April 29, 2016 @06:00AM (#11594697)
I mean, I'd do it, because it's physically equivalent to losing a few seconds of memory.

But I take it I am unusual in this.

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