Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by neom on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:56PM
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Unless some quantum effect doesn't actually allow that to be true, a "great filter" of sorts. Could make a copy and it just doesn't turn on, due to unknown unknowns, can't know why.
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Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by ImPostingOnHN on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:25PM
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You're essentially suggesting 'maybe the laws of physics would stop applying here for unknown reasons', but it's not plausible that would happen absent evidence.
Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by neom on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:42PM
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I was trying to elegantly hint there is probably lot we don't understand. :)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936 / https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10671017/
Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by ImPostingOnHN on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @12:55AM
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That is true (in that it is a statement always true of all subjects), and I don't think anyone was disputing that. Simply pointing out that we don't know of any reason an identical copy in an identical state wouldn't obey the laws of physics and perform identically.