Will It Still Be You in the Meaningful Sense?

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There's some concern that maybe cryopreservation is going to lead to some discontinuity of consciousness. This comes up in the famous tele-transporter thought experiment where if you were to take someone's body and then reconstruct a person from scratch somewhere else in the world, is that really them anymore or is it just a different being that's just like them? And I think actually an objection that sort of splits or divides the crown X community. Maybe half as far as I haven't done a proper survey on this question, but it's maybe 40%.

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What is cryonics? And how does it work? What do we know right now about reversing death? And what would we have to learn to make resurrection from a cryogenically frozen state feasible? How much does cryonics cost? What incentives would future people have for reviving a cryo-frozen person? How likely is it that a cryo-frozen person will be brought back in the future? Why do people (even pro-cryonics people) "cryoprastinate" and put off considering cryonics for a later time? What sorts of risks are involved in being frozen and later revived? What philosophical and ethical issues are at stake with cryonics? Would a revived person be able to integrate into a future society? Why is there stigma around cryonics in some cultures?

Max Marty is an entrepreneur and futurist who lived and worked in the Bay Area for 10 years. He's now in Austin and has been working to build the Cryonics community, including co-hosting the Cryonics Underground podcast and running the largest Cryonics discord community: The Cryosphere. He looks forward to getting back into startups in the future, this time in biotech.

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