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Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Will It Still Be You in the Meaningful Sense?
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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