Cryonics - Getting frozen in order to be heated up in 200 years

Here is a cool blog/article thing about cryonics

http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

If I got frozen for 200 years, would it pass in a blink for me or would I actually be aware of myself being frozen and really wait 200 years before someone woke me the fuck up.

If it only takes 1 second for me to get frozen and wake up in 2200 then I'd pay good money to be frozen. If it actually takes 200 years for me to get woken then fuck no.

I read an article somewhere where a guy said you have a better chance at prolonging life in any other way rather than reanimation.

>>57572125
I think you can view it this way. When you go to sleep and are unconscious, do you know how much time has passed? The answer is no, so I think it works the same way

>>57572131
Getting cryonically frozen isn't about prolonging life, it's about preserving your body and getting revived centuries later, when in theory medical technology is better. So in a way it is about prolonging life, but not in the traditional sense. Read here, this guy explains it pretty well >>57572056

No thanks

>>57572145
Well I feel that some time has passed when I sleep, but not a significant amount.

>>57572145
Depends on the dream honestly. If you had a vivid one it can feel like you were sleeping forever. If you can't really remember it or get woken suddenly it usually feels like it was a lot faster.

That just seems incredibly narcissistic

>>57572036
I mean, she was going to die anyway, so why not try something that is at least a little hopeful?

>>57572161
Correct. Like you said it's theoretical and these people are taking a leap of faith that we will develop a means of thawing out a human with their memories, experiences and conscience in tact.

>>57572036
I wrote a paper on this college.

To put it simply, you WILL die sometime between now and the next 100 years. If you truly want to live a longer life you have nothing to lose from freezing your body (besides money).

>these people also believe that if you copy someone's brain right before his death and then recreate him, that will be the same person

>>57572209
>thawing

Ughhh there's that word again. Thawing implies something has been frozen, but cryonically "frozen" isn't the same as freezing something, because if the body were to be frozen the cells would be ruptured and the body destroyed. Cryonically "freezing" is replacing bodily fluids with another fluid that doesn't freeze, but stays very very cool.

>>57572241
This cryo thing business seems morbid as fuck honestly. Cryofreezing brains, replacing bodily fluids etc.

Shit's fucked up.

If the company that runs the cryogenic freezing program goes under at all in those 200 years, you're basically a dead ice cube forever.

>>57572261
>This cryo thing business seems morbid as fuck honestly.
It deals with dead bodies. Of course it is morbid.

>>57572276
Which wouldn't matter because you'd be dead anyway. So why not take a "risk"?

>>57572297
Who pays for it while you're dead?

>>57572315
Read:
>>57572056

Not trying to shill this or anything, but this guy pretty much sums up everything you need to know about how it works.

>>57572238
Assuming everything goes right and the original body dies yes it would be.

>>57572036
What is the point?
If I were rich, I would pay someone a lot of money, trusting them to keep me alive for 200 years. And if by some miracle it works out, I get revived 200 years from now, broke as fuck, missed out on everything people my own age would have witnessed, if people get stupid, like in idiocracy, I wouldn't be able to be friends with anyone as humans would just be human sized pets to me.
If everyone gets smarter, I would struggle with everything.
If everything stays the same, then what the fuck did I freeze myself for, wasting all those money I had.

Honestly that seem like the best case, meaning I might as well throw away all my money and keep living like regular people and why would I want that?
If I were ill, there is no guarantee that people would be able to deal with that in the future, like why would doctors be specialists in a decease that was obscure enough that we didn't have a cure 200 years ago?
And if it is very serious, I might die anyway.

>>57572315
The price you pay -- something like $50000, give or take a factor 2 -- are enough not just to freeze you (which is quite cheap), but to run an investment fund that can fund the freezing chambers indefinitely, and (according to conservative estimates) pay for the revival process at the end.

$50000 sitting in an investment fund for 200 years can build up to become quite a hefty sum over centuries. This money can sit there, and grow and grow, using part of the income to pay for maintaining the freezing cells (which can be maintained *very* cheaply if you don't need access to the freezing chambers for 200 years), with the remainder used to grow your moneys to pay for eventual revival.

Nobody has ever woken up after beeing frozen. Quite a risky bet....

>>57572233

>I wrote a paper on this college.

>you WILL die sometime between now and the next 100 years.


gee thanks, college education.

>>57572384
>if people get stupid
>if
Half the world has a double digit IQ. 2.3% has an IQ over 130. I can tell you people in the 98th percentile do dumb shit all the time. The unabomber was 99.999 and he thought he could make the normies get out by bombing professors. Humans overestimate human intelligence.