Cryonics Magazine- Scientists Eavesdrop Inside the Mind
- Discovery May Provide Insight into Brain Cell Aging
- 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
- 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: Cryonics
How many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work?
On this page a calculation is attempted to determine how many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work. The flaw in this approach should be obvious when the author writes : According to The Stroke Association, a stroke is … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cell Death, Cerebral Ischemia, Cryonics, Delayed Neuronal Death, Nanomedicine, Stroke
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Chemical preservation and cryonics research
In the 2009-4 issue of Alcor’s Cryonics magazine I review the technical and practical feasibility of chemical preservation. One of the most interesting aspects of chemopreservation is that it could play a useful role in the cryopreservation of ischemic patients. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Brain Preservation, Chemical Fixation, Chemopreservation, Cryonics, Ischemia, Vitrification
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The presumption of death
Bertrand Russell once said that “most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” One does not need to look any further than the many responses to Kerry Howley’s recent article about cryonics and hostile partners in … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Bertrand Russell, Bryan Caplan, Cryonics, Hostile Relatives, Hostile Wife Phenomenon, Immortality, James Hughes, Kerry Howley, Life Extension, Peggy Jackson, Robin Hanson, Sati, Thomas Donaldson
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Cryonics and fear of the future
To people who have made cryonics arrangements the biggest mystery remains why more people have not made the same decision. The most obvious answer remains that cryonics has not been proven to “work” yet. People who give this answer usually … Continue reading
Official Alcor Facebook Page
Alcor Life Extension Foundation is on Facebook. If you would like to connect with Alcor members and supporters then visit the official Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/alcor.life.extension.foundation Become a fan and encourage interested friends, family members, and colleagues to support Alcor too.
Cryonics Oregon june meeting report
About 35 people attended the Cryonics Oregon-sponsored debate on the subject of SENS. Chana de Wolf was mistress of ceremonies. A show of hands indicated that the great majority of those attending were signed-up cryonicists. There was a sizeable contingent … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Aschwin de Wolf, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Biogerontology, Chana de Wolf, Cryonics, James Swayze, Nanomedicine, SENS
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Fourth Asset Preservation Group meeting
On the weekend of April 23-25 I attended a meeting of the cryonics Asset Preservation Group held at the estate of Ken Weiss near Gloucester, Massachusetts I will try to give a few brief summaries without going into detail about every presentation. Lori Rhodes, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Boudewijn Cabot, Igor Levenberg, Ken Weiss, Lori Rhodes, Marvin Minsky, Mike Perry, Society for Universal Immortalism, Terasem, Timeship, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking, VSED
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KrioRus cryopreserves 12th patient
On May 16, 2010 the only non-US cryonics provider KrioRus announced the cryopreservation of its 12th patient. The patient was pronounced legally dead on May 5 in Kiev and cryoprotectant perfusion was completed on May 7 after initial cooldown and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, International Cryonics, KrioRus, Russia
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Cryonics Oregon June Meeting with Aubrey de Grey and Ben Best
On June 6th the next Cryonics Oregon meeting will coincide with a downtown Portland aging conference. As a result we have been successful in persuading Cryonics Institute President Ben Best and Alcor member and biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey to attend … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Aging, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Cryonics, Cryonics Oregon, Life Extension, Rejuvenation, SENS
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Down with uploading
Over the last couple of years, cryonics pioneer Robert Ettinger has been a vocal critic of simplistic defenses of the idea of mind uploading as a survival strategy. He has worked out his reservations in detail in his latest book … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Cryonics, Empiricism, Gottfried Leibniz, Mind Uploading, Robert Ettinger
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Hostility of organized “skeptics” toward cryonics
I write here of the organized self-styled “skeptics”, not normal, healthy skepticism. Most ordinary skeptics typically dismiss cryonics without even investigating the subject enough to know that it is called “cryonics” rather than “cryogenics”, or that cryonics organizations use vitrification … Continue reading
Ten ways to avoid being the next cryonics legal case
Several of my clients and friends have asked me for observations regarding securing their cryonics arrangements even with contrary wishes of friends and relatives. Given the recent Mary Robbins case in Colorado, and multiple previous cases available in some detail … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics Funding, Hostile Relatives, Life Insurance, Rudi Hoffman
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Ben Best on the feasibility of cryonics at SENS3
Posted in Cryonics, Death, Science
Tagged Arrhenius Equation, Ben Best, Cerebral Ischemia, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Death, Peter Safar, Rejuvenation, SENS, Vitrification
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Robert Ettinger on cryonics and research
One of the most common criticisms of cryonics is to argue that cryonics can only be a legitimate endeavor when there is (peer reviewed) demonstration of whole body suspended animation. Advocates of cryonics point out that this is an unreasonable … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryobiology, Cryonics, Long-Term Potentiation, Research, Robert Ettinger, Suspended Animation
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How to protect yourself
There has been some discussion about relatives causing suspensions to not take place as the cryonics member gets older and how we cryonicists can protect ourselves from this happening. Suspension interference happens more then most cryonicists realize. As a retired … Continue reading
The ethics of cryonics interference
Advocates of human cryopreservation argue that death is not an event but a process. Cryonics patients are stabilized at low temperatures in anticipation of a second medical opinion in the future. This raises an important ethical issue. What is the … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death, Society
Tagged Bioethics, Cryonics, Cryostasis, Do Not Resuscitate, Ethics, Hostile Relatives
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The science of personal survival
There are various competing strategies how to achieve meaningful life extension or rejuvenation, including , but not limited to, genetic manipulation, periodical elimination of damage, caloric restriction, molecular nanotechnology and mind uploading. A useful review of these strategies has been … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death, Science
Tagged Anti-Aging, Biotechnology, Cryonics, Inductivism, Longevity Science, Mind Uploading, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Personal Survival, Rejuvenation, Research, Rudolf Carnap, Stroke
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The case for cryonics
The biology-of-aging blog Ouroboros has posted a skeptical post about cryonics that is highly representative of how most biological scientists respond to questions about cryonics. The discussion of cryonics is largely reduced to a discussion of the technical feasibility of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Aging, Bio-nanotechnology, Biogerontology, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Decision Theory, Ouroboros, Pascal's Wager, Rational Choice, Rejuvenation, Science
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Brain preservation
Mind uploading advocate Kenneth Hayworth has launched an interesting website devoted to the science of brain preservation. Of particular interest is his Proposal for a Brain Preservation Technology Prize (PDF). This document includes one of the most comprehensive discussions of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death, Neuroscience
Tagged Brain Preservation, Chemical Fixation, Chemopreservation, Cryonics, Kenneth Hayworth, Mind Uploading
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Radio interview with Cryonics Institute President Ben Best
Cryonics Institute President Ben Best talks about cryonics and how cryonics is related to rejuvenation in this one-hour long interview on “It’s Rainmaking Time!” Further Reading: Depressed Metabolism Interview with Ben Best
Teens & twenties cryonicist event 2010
This past weekend (Friday, January 8, 2010 to Sunday, January 10, 2010) I attended a meeting for cryonicists in their teens & twenties near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The event was funded by Bill Faloon and the Life Extension Foundation. Cairn … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Bill Falloon, Cairn Idun, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Curtis Henderson, KrioRus, Steve Valentine, Suspended Animation, Timeship
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Cryonics in the media
The Detroit News features a story about cryonics that is a good illustration of the upward battle that cryonics faces in the media. First and foremost, this story reinforces the idea that cryonics concerns the practice of freezing dead people: … Continue reading
Cryonics as something else
At EconLog economist Bryan Caplan has posted a number of blog entries that perfectly illustrate what happens when cryonics is not presented as a form of experimental long term critical care medicine but linked to other ideas such as transhumanism, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan Caplan, Cryonics, Empiricism, Identity, Mind Uploading, Philosophy of Mind, Robin Hanson
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Death is Gruesome…Cryonics Only Makes it Less So!
William Faloon is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer (Florida license number: F042784) Human beings are largely unaware about the gruesome nature of “death” Humans also shy away from the mutilation that occurs during hospital surgery. Hollywood films portray cryonics … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Alcor, Autopsy, Bill Faloon, Cremation, Cryonics, Death, Embalming, Larry Johnson, Life Extension Foundation, Ted Williams, William Faloon
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Interview with cryonics funding specialist Rudi Hoffman
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. Rudi Hoffman is an Alcor and CI member and the most prominent seller of cryonics life insurance policies. His website with information … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Atheism, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Evidence Based Cryonics, Larry Johnson, Libertarianism, Life Insurance, Religion, Rudi Hoffman, Sam Harris, The End of Faith
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The pursuit of cryonics as medicine
The biggest obstacle to the acceptance of cryonics is medical myopia; the idea that someone who has been pronounced dead by contemporary medical criteria will still be considered dead by future criteria. Advocates of human cryopreservation strongly argue against this. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Bioethics, Critical Care Medicine, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Jerry Leaf, Medical Myopia, Medicine, Mike Darwin, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Vitrification
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The “yuck factor” and cryonics
In sensationalized accounts of cryonics, explicit descriptions of cryonics procedures, and that of neuropreservation in particular, are used to invoke a negative response in the reader. Some bioconservatives have argued that disgust experienced in response to certain ideas and practices … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Alcor, Bioconservatives, Cryonics, Leon Kass, Medical Myopia, Neuropreservation, Ted Williams, Wisdom of Repugance, Yuck Factor
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Reversible cryopreservation
On the forum of the Immortality Institute there is an interesting exchange about the feasibility and time line for reversible cryopreservation. Cryobiologist Brian Wowk weighs in with some interesting observations: I think in the next 20 years more small animal … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain Cryopreservation, Brian Wowk, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Ischemia, Nanotechnology, Vitrification
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The future of Alcor
Alcor’s recent news item about its 2009 Annual Board Meeting and Strategic Meeting contains a number of encouraging statements. On the front of institutional reform, however, there is not much news to report. The passage about the need to balance … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Cryobiology, CryoCare, Cryonics, Cryonics FAQ, Cryonics Institute, Medicine, Perfusion, Salaries
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Baby boomers confront the reaper
One question that is going to be of great interest is how aging baby boomers will confront aging and death. Where previous generations have found peace in religion and silent resignation, there are reasons to believe that this generation will … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Baby Boomers, Death, Epircurus, Herbert Marcuse, Immortality, Protest Generation, Robert Freitas, Secularism, Stephen Cave
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The 2009 SENS Conference
Once a year I try to attend at least one biogerontology conference. Although I attend biogerontology conferences out of personal interest, and at my own expense, they are the most fruitful grounds for promoting cryonics I have found, and this … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Cryoprotectant Toxicity, KrioRus, SENS
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Revival of cryonics patients literature
There is a growing literature that discusses the technical aspects of revival of cryonics patients. The following list of the published literature was compiled by Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas and published as an appendix of their article on molecular … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Cryonics, Cryonics Magazine, Mike Darwin, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas, Thomas Donaldson
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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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“Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice” in Russian
Danila Medvedev has translated Ben Best’s article “Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice” into Russian. The translation is available on the KrioRus website. The original Engish article was published in Rejuvenation Research and is available as a PDF file at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Cryonics in Russia, Cryonics Institute, Danila Medvedev, KrioRus, Rejuvenation Research
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Lifequest
Back in the late 1980′s, from Lake Tahoe, we published seven issues of short stories devoted to cryonics and where that might lead, primarily to uploading and a future now much like that envisioned in far more detail by Ray Kurzweil in his … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Albert Einstein, Cryonics, Fred and Linda Chamberlain, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, Thomas Donaldson
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