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	<title>Depressed Metabolism &#187; Neuroscience</title>
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	<description>Cryonics, Life Extension, Anti-Aging, Health, Science, Neuroscience, Death, Liberty</description>
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		<title>Buddhism and the scientific worldview</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/08/15/buddhism-and-the-scientific-worldview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his blog The Life of Man Qua Man on Earth Mark Plus takes a critical look at Buddhism: Transhumanists who endorse Buddhism tend to annoy me. Buddhism not only has the problems John Horgan points out, but the empirical evidence doesn&#8217;t support its fans&#8217; claims about happiness&#8230;The developed countries where Buddhism has had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free will versus determinism as it relates to cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/07/30/free-will-versus-determinism-as-it-relates-to-cryonics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Best</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Best]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compatibilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Determinism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from &#8220;Ben Best – A Case for Free Will AND Determinism&#8221; Determinism implies materialism — implies that consciousness is material. Cryonics is based on the premise that the preservation of the fine structure of the brain at low temperature will preserve the self — ie, that the self is entirely determined-by and contained-in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical preservation and cryonics research</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/07/22/chemical-preservation-and-cryonics-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemical Fixation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemopreservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ischemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vitrification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 2009-4 issue of Alcor&#8217;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. There is accumulating evidence that vitrification agents cannot prevent ice formation in ischemic patients. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down with uploading</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/03/25/down-with-uploading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gottfried Leibniz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind Uploading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Ettinger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 Youniverse: Toward a Self-Centered Philosophy of Immortalism and Cryonics. In a recent CryoNet message he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain preservation</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/01/28/brain-preservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brain Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemical Fixation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Hayworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind Uploading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 chemopreservation as a strategy for personal survival. For example, one of the most common objections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revival of cryonics patients literature</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/09/10/revival-of-cryonics-patients-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryonics Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molecular Nanotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nanomedicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nanotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Merkle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Freitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Donaldson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 nanotechnology in Cryonics Magazine 2008-4: Robert C.W. Ettinger, The Prospect of Immortality, Doubleday, NY, 1964 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A simple method to resuscitate rats from cold circulatory arrest</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/01/12/a-simple-method-to-resuscitate-rats-from-cold-circulatory-arrest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2009/01/12/a-simple-method-to-resuscitate-rats-from-cold-circulatory-arrest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chana de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audrey Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypothermia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypoxia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radoslav Andjus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ultra-Profound Hypothermia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the eighth entry in a series about resuscitation of non-hibernating rodents from circulatory arrest at ultraprofound hypothermic and high subzero temperatures. In 1982, P.D. Rogers and G.P. Webb published some of their observations (based on previous papers and a Ph.D thesis) after carrying out a classroom demonstration of suspended animation in which they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert White on brain death</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/12/24/robert-white-on-brain-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/12/24/robert-white-on-brain-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert J. White is most known, or perhaps most notorious, for his work on primate head transplants. Less known, but more relevant to the practice of human cryopreservation, is his work in cerebral ischemia, hypothermia, and brain preservation. Most of White&#8217;s innovative work was published in the 1960s and 1970s. White also published a substantial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting cerebral blood flow in cryonics patients</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/10/17/promoting-cerebral-blood-flow-in-cryonics-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/10/17/promoting-cerebral-blood-flow-in-cryonics-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chana de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blood Clotting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cerebral Blood Flow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dextran-40]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been shown that perfusability of the brain is significantly compromised after long-term (&#62;5 min) ischemic events (the &#8220;no reflow&#8221; phenomenon). Improving cerebral blood flow after circulatory arrest is one of the fundamental objectives of human cryopreservation stabilization protocol.  To that end, cryonics organizations administer the resuscitation fluid Dextran-40 and the drug Streptokinase to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armand Karow on Isamu Suda&#8217;s brain cryopreservation experiments</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/09/23/armand-karow-on-isamu-sudas-brain-cryopreservation-experiments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/09/23/armand-karow-on-isamu-sudas-brain-cryopreservation-experiments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armand M. Karow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain Cryopreservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isamu Suda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meliorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, cryobiologist Armand M. Karow passed away. Unlike many contemporary cryobiologists, Karow offered cautious support for the objectives of cryonics. In the mid-1960s, Karow served on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Cryonics Societies of America (CSA). He also published a regular column titled &#8220;Scientifically Speaking&#8221; in Cryonics Reports, a publication by the Cryonics [...]]]></description>
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