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	<title>Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics &#187; Society</title>
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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>
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		<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>Cryonics, trans-temporal communism and future squatters</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/10/22/cryonics-trans-temporal-communism-and-future-squatters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eugen Leitl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cryonics advocate Eugen Leitl puts forward some hard-hitting and thought-provoking observations about cryonics (reminiscent of Mike Darwin&#8217;s more recent thoughts on the subject): Cryonics, like Natural Selection, or the theories of General and Special Relativity, is core-smashing in character, and &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/10/22/cryonics-trans-temporal-communism-and-future-squatters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Edward O. Wilson&#8217;s Consilience</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/07/edward-o-wilsons-consilience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/07/edward-o-wilsons-consilience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexis Carrel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson believes that a major reason why the social sciences have made so little progress is that its practitioners have ignored the biological basis of human behavior. He is not impressed with arguments that purport that the &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/09/07/edward-o-wilsons-consilience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/08/15/buddhism-and-the-scientific-worldview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The low-hanging fruit of technological progress</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/08/03/the-low-hanging-fruit-of-technological-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Drexler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website Alternative Right has an interesting article on the declining pace of technological progress: The world of 1959 is pretty much the same world we live in today technologically speaking. This is a vaguely horrifying fact which is little &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/08/03/the-low-hanging-fruit-of-technological-progress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The presumption of death</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/07/12/the-presumption-of-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/07/12/the-presumption-of-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Caplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hostile Relatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hostile Wife Phenomenon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Howley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Extension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy Jackson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell once said that &#8220;most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.&#8221; One does not need to look any further than the many responses to Kerry Howley&#8217;s recent article about cryonics and hostile partners in &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/07/12/the-presumption-of-death/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Humanist death apologetics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/05/25/humanist-death-apologetics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/05/25/humanist-death-apologetics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 18:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Marcuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paula Kirby]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Ertz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some contemporary atheists and secular humanists do not stop at debunking the idea of God but seem to think that making a persuasive case against religion requires them to refute all of its associated ideas as well; including the desire &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/05/25/humanist-death-apologetics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The ethics of cryonics interference</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/23/the-ethics-of-cryonics-interference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/23/the-ethics-of-cryonics-interference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/23/the-ethics-of-cryonics-interference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Biological enhancement and evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/19/biological-enhancement-and-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/19/biological-enhancement-and-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony de Jasay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the March 2010 issue of Reason magazine Tim Cavanaugh writes about the rift between transhumanists who favor biological enhancement versus those who favor non-biological &#8220;mechanical&#8221; enhancement: These days transhumanists talk a lot about subcutaneous data ports, permanent immersion in &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/19/biological-enhancement-and-evolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The case for cryonics</title>
		<link>http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/10/the-case-for-cryonics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aschwin de Wolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cryonics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2010/02/10/the-case-for-cryonics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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