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命运号角

This concept gives us a clearer understanding of the way cryonicists view death. To cryonicists, perfect health means the exact arrangement of atoms in your healthy brain being intact, and the process of dying means the deterioration of that arrangement due to phenomena like aging, injury, disease, and, eventually, effects caused by heart stoppage. Death, to them, means the point at which the original structure of your brain has become so disorganized that even the fanciest future science lab would have no way of figuring out what the original arrangement looked like—that’s the definition of info death.
原来冷冻专家是这样看待死亡的。对冷冻专家来说，真正健康是完整大脑的精确原子排列，死亡的过程是衰老、受伤、疾病和心跳停止引起的排列混乱。死亡是大脑原结构紊乱，未来科学实验室也无法查出原始排列，这是信息死亡的定义。

The concept of info death makes sense when we compare the brain to a computer’s hard drive. Eliezer Yudkowsky explains how difficult it actually is to bring a computer hard drive to info death:
把大脑比作电脑硬盘驱动，信息死亡的定义就有用了。Eliezer Yudkowsky解释了把信息死亡当成电脑硬盘是多难：

If you want to securely erase a hard drive, it’s not as easy as writing it over with zeroes. Sure, an “erased” hard drive like this won’t boot up your computer if you just plug it in again. But if the drive falls into the hands of a specialist with a scanning tunneling microscope, they can tell the difference between “this was a 0, overwritten by a 0” and “this was a 1, overwritten by a 0”.
如果你想安全地删除硬盘，全写上0是最简单的。这样擦除的硬盘你再重插插头电脑是不能重启的。但是科学家用隧道扫描显微镜可以看出原来的0和1。

命运号角

每日一词
deterioration
n. 恶化；退化；堕落

命运号角

plug it in
插上插头
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