Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae - Defrosting And Duplicating - Sadler's Lectures
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June 10, 2026 · 10 min
About this episode
This episode discusses chapter 6 of Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae, focusing on thought experiments related to personality and information.
This video focuses on chapter 6 of Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae, specifically the section “Personality and Information”, which discusses thought experiments that bear on turning a person into information and reconstituting that person somewhere else or at a different point in time. Specifically it examines on a somewhat different kind of thought-experiment, involving freezing a person, taking all of their atoms out of them while keeping records of their configurations, and then reconstituting and thawing them. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 4500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae - https://amzn.to/4v0FxNz
People in this episode
Host: Gregory B. Sadler
Topics covered
- philosophy
- thought experiments
- information theory
- identity
- technology
- freezing
- reconstitution
Keywords
- Stanislaw Lem
- Summa Technologiae
- thought experiments
- personality
- information
- freezing
- reconstitution
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Summa Technologiae
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