I was reading another forum about this and one guy had an interesting argument against it. Much has been said in this and other forums about the idea of either copying, making a "backup" of someone or uploading their mind as Ray Kurzweil has suggested. However, how practical would it be to copy a dynamic process and keep the copy running where the original had left off? I mean, your brain and body are a continuum of electrochemical processes that are ongoing, so an apt analogy would be to copy a computer program as it is running, or copy an airplane flying along at hundreds of knots with its engines running and to reproduce an exact copy in that state, but with no acceleration at all? How difficult would that be? I mean, can you copy a dynamic system without copying everything that led up to it being in that dynamic in the first place? This would also apply to cryonics, because that would require reconstructing a body and restarting it and the brain from a frozen static state. Has anyone really given these problems consideration? Are there ways around this problem of copying, or restarting/thawing a dynamic system and get the copy running before it degrades?
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