Do you have your freeze-me-upon-death papers in order?
Healthy mice have been cloned for the first time from dead mice that had been frozen for several years, raising the possibility, scientists say, of “resurrecting” extinct animals such as mammoths from their frozen carcasses.
The Guardian, Healthy mice cloned from frozen bodies, found via Bryan Alexander’s Infocult
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Why would $me want to be cloned? He wouldn’t be $me, not more than your hypothetical twin would be $you. And, you know, what’s the meaning of life if $me am not there to appreciate it? (Just to clarify things a bit: I’m waiting for my plane at Budapest airport, a little sleepy and quite tired –please bear with me.)
I could imagine that they could just scan your brain and store the contents when they freeze your body. Then when they clone you in the future they can download the scanned contents of your brain into the newly minted body. Then they add some basic upgrades to deal with the new era, and you would be Iván 2.0, ready to enjoy the future!
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