07-10-2002, 12:16 AM
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we'll miss you our friend. RIP
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Originally posted by Gutterboy
The problem with this that people don't think about is, who is it that is being revived?
First we'll ditch the "soul" as an unecessary hypothesis. Your "self", your personality, your long and short term memory, your neuroses, the way you react to stimuli, your emotions - everything you mean when you say "I" - are the result of a fabulously intricate network of neurons, neurotransmitting chemicals, and synapses which have been conditioned by your genetics, socialization, years of lifestyle choices, memory accumulation, and so forth. Even if a way could be found to prevent destruction of the cells themselves, freezing the brain destroys these billions of delicate chemical connections, the receptors for neurotransmitters, synapses, and so forth.
Even if you could "reanimate" a frozen body, which seems very unlikely in the first place, it would be like rebooting a computer after wiping off the operating system. You might have a self sustaining heartbeat, warmth, measurable brainwaves, but it probably wouldn't be you in any meaningful sense of the term.
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great post. i think along the same lines. |
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