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> I can't tell how cryonics preserving my body after I am _dead_, and then repairing my body, is different to cloning

I can't either, but it might be, we just don't know enough to say for sure. People whose hearts have stopped beating have still been brought back, at what point do you declare that when they're brought back they're a "clone" and not their original selves? Where's the line between physical death and "soul"-death?

The idea of there not being any "process continuity" when someone is frozen just seems to be speculation on your part.



I'm not saying there can't be process continuity when someone is frozen.

There isn't likely to be process continuity if you are freezing people after they are dead.




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