Cryonics Magazine- New Evidence Keeping Brain Sharp and Active Wards off Alzheimer’s
- New Discoveries in Cell Aging
- Eye Trials Give Hope for Stem Cells
- How Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury
- Victory For Crowdsourced Biomolecule Design
- New Approach to Preventing Fatal Septic Shock
- Alzheimer’s Damage Occurs Early
- Oxidative DNA Damage Repair
- Messenger RNA Self-destruct Mechanism Revealed
- How the Brain Cell Works: A Dive Into Its Inner Network
- Fight Aging!
- Chronosphere
- Cryonics “Castle”
- Doing the Time Warp
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.
- Fortune and Men’s Eyes
- Interventive Gerontology 101.01: The Basics
- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
- Fucked.
- You Bet Your Life!
Category Archives: Arts & Living
Steve Jobs’ morbid glorification of death
According to Steve Jobs, death is such a great benefit to mankind that it would have to be invented if it did not exist: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Death
Tagged Apple, Baby Boomers, Death, Herbert Marcuse, Steve Jobs
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Is a life worth starting? Some personal views
For life—the life of any sentient creature—to be worth living, there must, as Robert Ettinger has often said, be a preponderance of satisfaction over dissatisfaction. If this overall slant toward good rather than bad is maintained, it seems reasonable that … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death, Science
Tagged Antinatalism, Cryonics, David Benatar, Forever for All, Immortalism, Mike Perry, Pessimism
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Review of ‘Better Never to Have Been’
Review of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 “Would that I had never been born” is a lament sometimes voiced in the depth of misfortune, a … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death
Tagged Antinatalism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Better Never to Have Been, Cryonics, David Benatar, Human Enhancement, Immortalism, Mike Perry
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Non-existence is hard to do
A review of contemporary antinatalist writings Originally published in Cryonics, 2nd Quarter, 2010 (PDF) “Coming into existence is bad in part because it invariably leads to the harm of ceasing to exist.” David Benatar “If they could get a corpse … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death, Neuroscience, Science, Society
Tagged Antinatalism, Consciousness, Cryonics, David Benatar, Empiricism, Free Will, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans Reichenbach, Hard Determinism, Jim Crawford, Marquis de Sade, Max Stirner, Thomas Ligotti, Transhumanism
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Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator and the science of cryonics
This past weekend Motel X, the Lisbon (Portugal) International Horror festival, had its third anniversary. It is one of the smaller international horror festivals around, but this year they managed to have both Stuart Gordon, director of several Lovecraft adaptions, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death, Science
Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Gordon Stuart, Greg Fahy, Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest, Lisbon, Motel X, Portugal, Re-Animator, Yuri Pichugin
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You’re all alone
In ‘The Rise of Scientific Philosophy’ the logical positivist philosopher Hans Reichenbach writes: In Leibniz’s philosophy the rational side of modern science has found its most radical representation. The successful use of mathematical methods for the description of nature made … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living
Tagged Fritz Leiber, Gottfried Leibniz, Logical Empiricism, Logical Positivism, Mark Samuels, Monad, Philosophy of the Mind, Science Fiction, Solipsism, The Sinfull Ones, Thomas Ligotti, Urban Horror
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Less wrong
Less Wrong is a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality: Over the last decades, new experiments have changed science’s picture of the way we think – the ways we succeed or fail to obtain the truth, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Science, Society
Tagged Eliezer Yudkowsky, Less Wrong, Overcoming Bias, Rationality, Robin Hanson
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Avoiding Karl Popper
The philosopher Karl Popper has published on a wide variety of subjects but his most lasting contribution is his answer to the problem of induction by drawing attention to the asymmetry between verification and falsification. A theory can never be … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Society
Tagged Critical Rationalism, Karl Popper, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Patrick Millard’s cryonics photography
Patrick Millard is a Michigan based artist who works with different media including photography, painting, mixed media, sound, and installation. He currently works as an adjunct professor of photography at Grand Valley State University and Grand Rapids Community College and … Continue reading
The black operating room of Alexis Carrel
From David M. Friedman’s The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever: The initial stages of these studies were performed in Carrel’s operating suite, which the two men now entered. Lindbergh had never been … Continue reading
Facing death with Epicurus
James Warren is to be complimented for writing a thorough and persuasive book on Epicurean thinking about death. In Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics, Warren offers a detailed review of Epicurus’ view that “death is nothing to us.” His … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Death
Tagged Death, Epicurus, Ethics, James Warren, Philosophy
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Famous preserved body parts
The website TopTenz recently published a list of the Top 10 Most Famous Preserved Body Parts. The list includes Galileo’s finger and Albert Einstein’s brain. As has been discussed on this blog before, the preservation of human brains (no matter … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Death
Tagged Albert Einstein, Benito Mussolini, Boyd Rice, Cryonics, Death, Predappio, Vitrification
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Edvard Munch’s Death in the Sick Chamber
Edvard Munch’s painting “Death in the Sick Chamber” (1895) portrays death as expressed through the survivors. A striking aspect of this work is that all the people in the room do not console one another and are physically and emotionally … Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke’s The Last Theorem
As mentioned in a previous contribution, Arthur C. Clark was no stranger to cryonics. The famous science fiction author once stated in a letter in support of cryonics, “Although no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate … Continue reading
Teaching children about cryonics
How do you teach a child about something that is so far “unproven”? How do you bring up the subject of cryonics and how it may allow someone to be reanimated in the future? I am a cryonicist, I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death
Tagged Child Rearing, Children, Cryonics, Death, Education, Shannon Vyff
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H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” and cryonics
In “Heritage of Horror,” Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi writes that Lovecraft’s short story “Cool Air” “anticipates cryogenic research.” We can forgive Joshi the common mistake of writing “cryogenics” when he means “cryonics,” but how much cryonics is there really in … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death
Tagged Cryonics, Death, H.P. Lovecraft, Hypothermia, S.T. Joshi
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Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, skin aging and psoriasis
The practice of balneotherapy, also known as water treatment or spa therapy, has experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years, especially amongst those with skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. Salts, minerals, and bacteria particular to certain … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Health, Science
Tagged Aging, blue lagoon, iceland, Medical Tourism, psoriasis, skin care
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Consideration of the vanity and shortness of man’s life
Before the scientific conquest of death became a serious topic of conversation, philosophers, writers and poets had to resign themselves to the inevitable demise of the individual in this world. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), the “Shakespeare of Divines,” gave poetic expression … Continue reading
H.P. Lovecraft and the science of resuscitation
H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West is a man of science, not superstition. Following Ernst Haeckel, he believes that “all life is a chemical and psychical process,” that the soul is “a myth,” and that “unless actual decomposition has set in, a … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living
Tagged Death, H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert West, Reanimation, Resuscitation
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