My answer to (3) is “no” for rather trivial reasons, as my state 20 years ago is most comparable to someone who died and was not a cryonics patient: the thing that existed and was most similar to “me” was the DNA of people who are related to me. I don’t count that as “alive”, and I doubt that most people would.
Ask me (3) in the future, and I will probably have a different answer. (Wait until I’m 24, though, because I don’t really identify so well with infants.)
My answer to (3) is “no” for rather trivial reasons, as my state 20 years ago is most comparable to someone who died and was not a cryonics patient: the thing that existed and was most similar to “me” was the DNA of people who are related to me. I don’t count that as “alive”, and I doubt that most people would.
Ask me (3) in the future, and I will probably have a different answer. (Wait until I’m 24, though, because I don’t really identify so well with infants.)