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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by comboy on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:39AM (#34064530)
If you want to be correct, there's hardly any "you" to begin with. Given basic physics, cultural and physical context (whether that's atmosphere and biosphere or 21st century and technolgy), dropping cartesian theatre you will have a hard time finding "you". It's mostly a language construct. That's just reality.

If you want analogy - we are looking on the river and we see a vortex, then it disappears. Parent comment is like - oh, the water is again flowing in the straight flow. And your version is - there was a vortex, and now it's gone forever, nothing left of it.

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Re:What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans? by scotty79 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:05AM (#34064765)
Good analogy. However vortex for as long as it exists is not meaningless. It can do things and it's perfectly reasonable that in it's interest to keep existing so it can keep doing things.

So there is "you" as there is a "vortex". It's not just a language construct. It's a language construct that describes impactful but sadly transient phenomenon.

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