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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by jfk13 on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:10PM (#20087037)
But currently we don't know what "information in your brain" would be required, so it's a huge leap of faith to suppose that cryonics is successfully preserving it.

(That's supposing "information in your brain" would even be sufficient by itself. Another leap of faith.)

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by garmaine on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:48PM (#20090266)
The connectome. Your identity is encoded in the neural network of your brain, which is preserved in vitrification. I don’t know why this is controversial.
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