From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 11:03:21 MDT
Question: How will you know that you've woken up from cryogenic sleep?
Answer: The same way you know you've woken up from non cryogenic sleep.
"Adrian Tymes" <wingcat@pacbell.net> Wrote:
>Perfect, in this case, means absolute fidelity. Way more than just good
>enough to fool you:
I don't understand, if it's good enough to fool you then how could it be
anything other than good enough?
>also replicating all the imperceptibles that you don't notice, which could
>add up to noticeable effects over a long enough time or in odd enough
>circumstances.
I would say not only could that happen but it must happen, but so what? Take
a sip of coffee right now. Ok you're different now. Even 20 years from now
your
behavior will be different than if you had not taken that sip 20 years
before, perhaps slightly perhaps profoundly but certainly different. Does
that mean you are not the same person after you drank it? I think not.
>even the slightest discrepancy - and there would likely be discrepancies
>in the edited memory and the present reality would be noticed.
Everybody has discrepancies in their memory, that's why eyewitness testimony
is so unreliable. And then there are Black Holes, ever think that's where
the program may be trying to divide by zero?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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