I wonder if the really heaviest claims cryonics makes are mostly split between civics (questions like can an operation keep running long enough, will there always be people who care about reviving the stiffs) and partially in computer science (can the information needed be recovered from what remains), and the questions that are in the domain neuroscience (what biochemical information is important) might be legible enough to people outside of the field that neuroscientists don’t end up being closer to the truth? I wouldn’t say so, judging by the difficulties the openworm project is having in figuring out which information is important, but it’s conceivable a time will come when it falls this way.
This is making me wonder how often people assume a question resides exclusively in one field when it’s split between a number of fields in such a way that a majority of the experts in the one assumed focal field don’t tend to be right about it.
I wonder if the really heaviest claims cryonics makes are mostly split between civics (questions like can an operation keep running long enough, will there always be people who care about reviving the stiffs) and partially in computer science (can the information needed be recovered from what remains), and the questions that are in the domain neuroscience (what biochemical information is important) might be legible enough to people outside of the field that neuroscientists don’t end up being closer to the truth? I wouldn’t say so, judging by the difficulties the openworm project is having in figuring out which information is important, but it’s conceivable a time will come when it falls this way.
This is making me wonder how often people assume a question resides exclusively in one field when it’s split between a number of fields in such a way that a majority of the experts in the one assumed focal field don’t tend to be right about it.