The Divide Between Crownists and Cryopreservation

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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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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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