The main reason behind this is that what gives my life value are my social connections, without them I am just another ‘I’, no different than any other.
I think you’re going too far when saying it’s “no different than any other”, but I agree with the core idea—being revived without any of my social connections in an alien world would indeed significantly change “who I am”. And it’s one of the main reason for which while I do see some attraction in cryonics, I didn’t do any serious move in that direction. It would be all different if a significant part of my family or close friends would sign too.
I think you’re going too far when saying it’s “no different than any other”, but I agree with the core idea—being revived without any of my social connections in an alien world would indeed significantly change “who I am”.
Hmm..actually, you have a different point of view.
I feel like I would have the same identity even without my social connections; I would have the specific identity that I currently have if I was revived.
My point was more along the lines it doesn’t matter which identity I happened to have—mine or someone else’s, it wouldn’t matter.
Consider that you have a choice whether to be revived as a particular Czech business man or as a particular medical doctor from Ohio (assuming for the hypothetical, that there was some coherent way to map these identities to ‘you’). How would you pick?
Maybe you would pick based on the values of your current identity, kilobug. However, that seems rather arbitrary as these aren’t the values exactly of either the Czech business man or the doctor from Ohio. I imagine either one of them would be happy with being themselves.
Now throw your actual identity in the mix, so that you get to pick from the three. I feel that many people examine their intuition and feel they would prefer that they themselves are picked. However, I examine my intuition and I find I don’t care. Is this really so strange?
But I wanted to add … if the daughter of the person from Ohio is also cryonicized and revived (somewhat randomly, I based my identities on the 118th and 88th patients at Alcor, though I don″t know what their professions were, and the 88th patient did have a daughter), I very much hope that the mother-daughter pair may be revived together. That, I think, would be a lot of fun to wake up together and find out what the new world is like.
I think you’re going too far when saying it’s “no different than any other”, but I agree with the core idea—being revived without any of my social connections in an alien world would indeed significantly change “who I am”. And it’s one of the main reason for which while I do see some attraction in cryonics, I didn’t do any serious move in that direction. It would be all different if a significant part of my family or close friends would sign too.
Hmm..actually, you have a different point of view.
I feel like I would have the same identity even without my social connections; I would have the specific identity that I currently have if I was revived.
My point was more along the lines it doesn’t matter which identity I happened to have—mine or someone else’s, it wouldn’t matter.
Consider that you have a choice whether to be revived as a particular Czech business man or as a particular medical doctor from Ohio (assuming for the hypothetical, that there was some coherent way to map these identities to ‘you’). How would you pick?
Maybe you would pick based on the values of your current identity, kilobug. However, that seems rather arbitrary as these aren’t the values exactly of either the Czech business man or the doctor from Ohio. I imagine either one of them would be happy with being themselves.
Now throw your actual identity in the mix, so that you get to pick from the three. I feel that many people examine their intuition and feel they would prefer that they themselves are picked. However, I examine my intuition and I find I don’t care. Is this really so strange?
But I wanted to add … if the daughter of the person from Ohio is also cryonicized and revived (somewhat randomly, I based my identities on the 118th and 88th patients at Alcor, though I don″t know what their professions were, and the 88th patient did have a daughter), I very much hope that the mother-daughter pair may be revived together. That, I think, would be a lot of fun to wake up together and find out what the new world is like.