ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Text Conversation PERIOD: Expedition, prior to arrival on Tau Ceti IV TOPIC: Spiritual Concerns SUMMARY: Two colonists discuss the spiritual implications of cryosleep. When it launched, the UESC Marathon's journey represented the longest duration of cryosleep in human history and such anxieties were extremely prevalent. ===================================================================  [DBRY]: Of course I'm concerned about soul integrity. Especially with what we know about cryocognitive degeneration. [SGAU]: If you're referring to the Santoso papers, they had methodological problems around simulated ganglion atrophy. [DBRY]: A dog whistle that distracts from Santoso's point. If we're frozen and reawoken too many times, we start losing ourselves. [DBRY]: Imagine if the wheel of reincarnation tore pieces from you each time it turned. Pieces that could never be recovered, lost to the void. [SGAU]: Hang on, I'm going back into cryo next year. Let's pretend I forget all about arguing with you. Even without that memory, I'd still be me. [DBRY]: How would you know the difference between what actually happened and your memory? [SGAU]: As soon as we had another conversation. You'd be as insufferable as always, and you'd remind me to prove your point. [DBRY]: I'm in the same wake cycles as you. What if I forgot about you? [SGAU]: Uh. [DBRY]: And we have relatively few wake cycles. Imagine what it's like with more. [DBRY]: You don't know what's changed every time you reopen your eyes. How much. Where. And neither does anyone else in your cohort because they might've changed too. [SGAU]: There's always the BoBs. Or the AI. [DBRY]: You're really going to trust the continuity of your soul to a machine? [SGAU]: I don't even believe in souls. [DBRY]: Do you believe in yourself? Your sense of continuous existence? [SGAU]: Hell, I want to. I think so. I'm still me when I'm in that pod. [DBRY]: It's not sleep. You dream when you're asleep. In a cryopod, you're closer to death than sleep. [SGAU]: Sure, but I come back from the cryopod. Like reincarnation. [DBRY]: You don't want to face the implications, do you? Of losing ourselves piece by piece and never knowing what's missing. [SGAU]: Hell no, not when you put it like that. Makes me never want to sleep again. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]