We are information

Do you know which is the point in cryonics? It is to avoid the information-theoretic death of our brain. So, we are but information.

Then I thought: if the point is to keep our information and we are but information, couldn't we have another - more scalable - way of preserving it rather than having tons of frozen brains all over a room?

What if we did a dump of ourselves? What is the information we have to dump?

First of all, we need a dump of our DNA. Then, we need to dump the actual state of our brain to not loose our acquired knowledge and personality. We can nowadays express the DNA as a sequence of bytes (althought it seems there is some discerning on it). But what about our brain? Will computational neuroscience or some other discipline be able to transfer someday the state of our brain to a sequence of bytes?

Can you imagine the power of being able to save the information in your brain to a computer, modifying it and then being able to assimilate it again?

- You could apply patches. For example, you could apply the patch to modern times depression and instantly overcome it.
- You could backup important memories just as you backup your pictures. You wouldn't need to write down everything that happens in your life to a notebook anymore!

On the other hand:

- Your hidden thoughts won't be hidden anymore. You would have to encrypt them.
- Important organizations could steal brain data to extract information, predictions on aggregate people wishes, political views, and more. Exactly what they do now, just that it would be easier.

Current cryogenic institutes have a replication factor of one just because there is only one copy of the DNA and the brain state of a human being - the brain itself. Understanding ourselves as an array of bytes opens the door to the usage of modern IT methods for persisting human beings.

I wouldn't say it is impossible that we can restore a human being from a backup in the future just like we restore documents now.

"Damn, a terrorist had put a bomb in my car and I died yesterday. I had to restore myself from last week's backup"