You don’t necessarily need the brain. There’s no Cartesian divide between your brain and the rest of the universe; they interact quite a bit. I would bet that all the information that’s in your brain now can theoretically be inferred from things outside of your brain in 10 years, although I’m less confident that a physically realizable superintelligence would be able to do that sort of inference.
Yes… They interact quite a bit (the brain and the rest of the universe)… Then what am I doing investing in a technology that gives me the best chance of recovering the pattern within that brain?
I get the point, but the interaction between the brain and the rest of the universe is not likely to leave a durable pattern upon the universe of the pattern in the brain. I am open to being wrong about that.
You don’t necessarily need the brain. There’s no Cartesian divide between your brain and the rest of the universe; they interact quite a bit. I would bet that all the information that’s in your brain now can theoretically be inferred from things outside of your brain in 10 years, although I’m less confident that a physically realizable superintelligence would be able to do that sort of inference.
Yes… They interact quite a bit (the brain and the rest of the universe)… Then what am I doing investing in a technology that gives me the best chance of recovering the pattern within that brain?
I get the point, but the interaction between the brain and the rest of the universe is not likely to leave a durable pattern upon the universe of the pattern in the brain. I am open to being wrong about that.
Because of our uncertainty about how much information is preserved and how easy it is to reconstruct. Cryonics is the most conservative option.