Cryonics, not cryogenics. Cryogenics is a respectable scientific field and they so hate association with cryonics that they wrote anti-cryonics into their by-laws in 1982.
I mean that I'm very confident that mental events supervene onto physical events, and therefore whatever it is that causes us to report consciousness will be retained by any sufficiently accurate simulation. I'm worried not about the philosophical problem of whether any simulation could in principle do the job, but the practical problem of whether you can build such a simulation given only a corpsicle.
"The Mind's I" was a huge influence on me as a boy and what started me off as a Dennett fan. I can't remember who I lent my copy to now, so thanks for the pointer!
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I mean that I'm very confident that mental events supervene onto physical events, and therefore whatever it is that causes us to report consciousness will be retained by any sufficiently accurate simulation. I'm worried not about the philosophical problem of whether any simulation could in principle do the job, but the practical problem of whether you can build such a simulation given only a corpsicle.
"The Mind's I" was a huge influence on me as a boy and what started me off as a Dennett fan. I can't remember who I lent my copy to now, so thanks for the pointer!