I found my copy of Mike's FFA Forever For All... and it turns out he does not address "dualism" and his index entry "mind body problem" leads to "psychological functionalism" and reductionism which goes to page 2-4. There is some discssion of nanotech there I still have to reread but for now, it's clear to me that whatever we do to become immortal or be immortal will require YACTO technology or manipulation of matter on the scale of at least 10 to the minus 24th power. That's where the quantum scale comes in.
I relayed Matzke's idea of deep reality where Matzke imagines that we already are immortal and we're being sort of beamed into our meat-bodies and connectome brains from a quantum cloud. I haven't thought through what the implications are for cryonics or gluteronics (aldehyde + AI recovery). So far I'm only at the point where I can imagine our "quantum self" is indeed a "ghost in the machine" and that if cryonics or gluteronics worked, it would not neccessarily be our quantum self that beams in as the new ghost in the machine. It might be body and brain-functions that look and act like our original selves to a large extent, but the core of our mind won't neccessarily be occupying the reanimated body/brain. The brain/body suit COULD be occupied by a new tenant, much like a new homeowner moves into a renovated house.
The same situation exists, essential, when a human zygote matures enough for occupancy by a ghost-from-the-quantum-aether. This is the stuff of horror movies which cryonics-as-reductionists and pure-materialists have rejected since the beginning of cryonics of rouxe. I'm now coming at it with a fresh perspective however, after re-considering the possibility that the quantum foam does indeed exist as the foundational level upon which space-time-matter exist as Matske writes about.
I've already forwarded an email to the quantum physics faculty at U of Waterloo but got the cold shoulder treatment. I don't imagine too many people in quantum physics will follow Matzke's view.
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