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by MikeCapone 5434 days ago
I don't think most fans of cryonics think that they'll just be unfrozen and brought back in the same body. With advanced enough technology, the brain patterns can be scanned and either emulated in a virtual world, or they can be reproduced in a new body that won't age in the same way that our bodies do (because the diseases of aging happen in an evolutionary blind spot, after we reproduced).
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Anyone wanting to know more can check Bostrom's Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap:

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3...

Very technical, but gives a good idea of what is required.