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	<title>Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics &#187; Neuroscience</title>
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		<title>ApoE4 – The Ancestral Allele</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/08/05/apoe4-%e2%80%93-the-ancestral-allele/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reportedly, when James Watson and Steven Pinker had their genome sequenced, they declined to know their risk for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Clearly this is not an option for life extensionists and cryonicists, who are better off knowing whether they have a copy &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/08/05/apoe4-%e2%80%93-the-ancestral-allele/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medico-Legal Aspects of Human Cryopreservation Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/05/28/medico-legal-aspects-of-human-cryopreservation-optimization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 15:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Ongoing legal challenges and hostile interference of relatives have increased awareness among cryonicists that addressing the likelihood that one will be cryopreserved at all should take center stage among other strategies for survival. As a consequence, a number of &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/05/28/medico-legal-aspects-of-human-cryopreservation-optimization/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Neural cryobiology and the legal recognition of cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/05/16/neural-cryobiology-and-the-legal-recognition-of-cryonics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Fahy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[M22]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert J. White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuri Pichugin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that if you want to persuade someone, you need to find common ground. But one of the defining characteristics of cryonics is that proponents and opponents cannot even seem to agree on the criteria that should &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/05/16/neural-cryobiology-and-the-legal-recognition-of-cryonics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The case against cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/03/11/the-case-against-cryonics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decision Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Survival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is striking about cryonics is that those who have taken serious efforts to understand the arguments in favor of its technical feasibility generally endorse the idea. Those who have not made cryonics arrangements usually give non-technical arguments (anxiety about &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/03/11/the-case-against-cryonics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The RhinoChill: A New Way to Cool the Brain Quickly</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/20/the-rhinochill-a-new-way-to-cool-the-brain-quickly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/20/the-rhinochill-a-new-way-to-cool-the-brain-quickly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Darwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hypothermia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mike Darwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We scientists are difficult, cranky, and above all, maddeningly frustrating people. Want to turn lead into gold? No problem, we can tell you how to do that, and in fact have even done it already: the only catch is that &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/20/the-rhinochill-a-new-way-to-cool-the-brain-quickly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prospects for Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia and Improved CPR in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/15/prospects-for-mild-therapeutic-hypothermia-and-improved-cpr-in-cardiopulmonary-cerebral-resuscitation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/15/prospects-for-mild-therapeutic-hypothermia-and-improved-cpr-in-cardiopulmonary-cerebral-resuscitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Darwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of hypothermia: protective or preservative hypothermia, and therapeutic hypothermia. The former is easy and straightforward to understand for most, clinicians and laymen, alike.  However, therapeutic hypothermia has proved to be a far more difficult idea to &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2011/01/15/prospects-for-mild-therapeutic-hypothermia-and-improved-cpr-in-cardiopulmonary-cerebral-resuscitation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Non-existence is hard to do</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/12/15/non-existence-is-hard-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thought experiments as knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/10/03/thought-experiments-as-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/10/03/thought-experiments-as-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most remarkable aspects about the ongoing debates concerning the technical feasibility of mind uploading is the excessive confidence that some people have that these issues can be resolved without further experimental validation. The (implicit) assumption seems to &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/10/03/thought-experiments-as-knowledge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mind uploading, falsifiability and cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/22/mind-uploading-falsifiability-and-cryonics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/22/mind-uploading-falsifiability-and-cryonics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the cryonics discussion list Cryonet cryobiologist Brian Wowk weighed in on the topic of mind uploading in a post that merits quoting in its entirety: I read with interest Bob Ettinger&#8217;s recent remarks about Mark Gubrud&#8217;s piece in The &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/22/mind-uploading-falsifiability-and-cryonics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>David J. Chalmers on the Singularity, mind uploading and cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/16/david-j-chalmers-on-the-singularity-mind-uploading-and-cryonics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/16/david-j-chalmers-on-the-singularity-mind-uploading-and-cryonics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I would make an argument in favor of mind uploading (or substrate independent minds) it would not be a logical deduction from what we know about neuroscience but from what we don&#8217;t know.  As one of the leading philosophers &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/16/david-j-chalmers-on-the-singularity-mind-uploading-and-cryonics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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