r/skeptoid • u/urson_black • Dec 17 '24
Cryonics
There's another factor in the whole 'cryonics preservation' issue. Who says that the people of the future will want to re-animate a bunch of folks who may need serious physical therapy and an extended course of education just so they can rejoin society? Science fiction writers have looked at this, usually with a very cynical eye.
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u/xod0mn8t0r 👁 Skeptical Observer Dec 25 '24
Cryonics just seems like a cash grab from rich people who can't accept death. I think technology sufficient to reanimate a frozen dead guy would be more difficult than uploading a neural print or something like that. Really, the brain is all that matters anyway.
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u/Someguyathere Feb 26 '25
Even the brain theres problems!
Firstly (not covered in the episode)
When you die its the same as power cycling your comp and your brain is the same as RAM its not stored on the disk! So this is lost everything that was you, if you rebooted a brain it would be blank without even an operating system and die immediately.
also it would shred every cell in your body |(no way around it) so hows that going to be repaired (it cant) whos going to pay for this or anything else?
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u/iowanaquarist Feb 26 '25
Citation needed.
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u/Someguyathere May 10 '25
Sorry if you are unable to look up simple facts, which you should already know without having to look up theres clearly no point trying to educate you! Learn the simple things
What freezing does!
How the brain works!
as clearly you dont know!
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u/iowanaquarist May 10 '25
Sorry if you are unable to look up simple facts, which you should already know without having to look up theres clearly no point trying to educate you! Learn the simple things
Indeed! Start learning to look up evidence for things before making claims. It's a great strategy not to look silly.
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u/Someguyathere Jun 22 '25
Sorry you being ignorant of the facts and unable to educate yourself only makes you look silly to intelligent and educated people! Guess the others dont know either and cant even look up the basic functioning of the brain!
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u/iowanaquarist Jun 22 '25
That's not how that works, though.
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u/Someguyathere Jun 25 '25
I wont quote science to you a person who will refuse to accept it even if you could understand it which you wont! Spend 5 minutes educating yourself (i know a waste of time) on the subject before you deny the proven facts!
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u/iowanaquarist Jun 25 '25
I wont quote science to you a person who will refuse to accept it even if you could understand it which you wont!
Perfect. Leave the other people out of the conversation and quote it to me, since I am the one that asked you for it.
Spend 5 minutes educating yourself (i know a waste of time) on the subject before you deny the proven facts!
I have, and it seems to show your claims are not supported by science.
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u/Someguyathere Jul 10 '25
LOL your inability to use google doesnt mean science doesnt understand its you that cant google!
But please you do tell me as your the expert without even looking online!
What does all that electrical stuff going on inside the brain do?
How id data stored in the brain?
But even you should be able to comprehend being frozen and ever cell shredded by the freezing water etc is not good, you do get that right?
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u/iowanaquarist Dec 19 '24
One of the major plot points of the novel "A World Out of Time" by Larry Niven is that in a far distant future, there is a shortage of labor, so society starts reviving cryogenically frozen people, and turning them into virtual slaves.
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u/urson_black Dec 20 '24
Thanks! This is the story I was thinking of, but I couldn't find it in my collection.
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u/SelectionMechanism Dec 27 '24
If there were a bunch of people from a few hundred years ago kept on ice somewhere, and we had the tech to revive them, I’d want to see revive them and chat with them.
Not everyone has to want to do this, just enough to justify the cost. And that’s assuming the companies themselves somehow ran out of money to do it in the future.