signing up for cryonics, being vitrified in liquid nitrogen when you die, and having your brain nanotechnologically reconstructed fifty years later, is actually less of a change than going to sleep, dreaming, and forgetting your dreams when you wake up.
I don’t think this counts as a “practical application” of EY’s understanding of physics, but only as a basic example of instrumentalism, provided the reconstruction is faithful enough.
I don’t think this counts as a “practical application” of EY’s understanding of physics, but only as a basic example of instrumentalism, provided the reconstruction is faithful enough.