Re: How will you know that you've woken up from cryogenic sleep?

From: Randy (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 13:06:38 MDT


On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:56:09 -0400, you wrote:

>Extropians,
>
>A big push in this group is the notion that "we'll do cryostasis
>until life extension technology becomes fully realized" unless I'm
>really off the mark, right?
>
>A few questions sprang into my head:
>
>How will you know that you've actually awoken from cryo-sleep?
>
>In other words, when you're finally resuscitated, will it matter to
>you if you woke up in your original body? What if you wake up in
>a different body? How will you know you really "woke up" at all
>and really weren't just uploaded into some kind of reality
>simulator and that you'll never have a physical body ever again?
>
>Does this matter? Should it matter?

It might not matter.

In the movie The Matrix, I might have taken the vat instead...

>"What if you were a brain in a vat ..."

Sounds good to me, I think.

>
>-- Dossy



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