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Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Divide Between Crownists and Cryopreservation

The idea behind this is that in some future date, you know, it's not like you're going to be plugged into a new body and zapped and turned back on. And your memories, your personality, all the other whole structure of your brain will be uploaded into some sort of simulator. They see that as crownics. Some people genuinely do have some philosophical concern that the slice and dice up and uploading could go wrong. But others don't - these two groups have a lot of trouble talking to each other. It seems like one of the most challenging kind of philosophy of mine, that experiments.

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