A primary point I'm making is that the scale of resolution of the cryonics hopeful is 10*-9 meters but the scale of matter and time goes to 10*-43 sec and 10*-34 m. That leaves more than Feynman's plenty of room at the bottom for rules of the universe that are not classical. If the mind operates at those scales, there is no hope for cryonics. Our minds could be mere antennas that transieve 'soul' or quantum personality and memory as a quantum field effect with brain cells as anchors. See Edward W. Wallace. See experiments documented by Wallace of Harold S. Burr. And see Penfield's astonishing brain probes replaying curiously unimportant bits of peoples lives like video recorders.
Another point I make is that the hard problem of consciousness has not been solved. Cryonicists think, as I used to, that memory and personality are embedded in preservable brain structure, as Drexler wrote in Engines of Creation in 1984. More physicists are turning that over however and positing that conciousness is primary. That's not religion. That's reasoned conjecture based on anaomlies witnessed in the real world. \
Thanks to the single reporter of my sane status on CU.
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