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- 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.
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- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
- Fucked.
- You Bet Your Life!
Tag Archives: Immortality
Paul Edwards on the fear of death
In his book God and the Philosophers, the Austrian American atheist philosopher Paul Edwards writes: When we die we do not return to the “bosom of Nature” or the bosom of anything. After death we will have no experiences at … Continue reading
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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Humanist death apologetics
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Society
Tagged Atheism, Boredom, Ethics, God, Herbert Marcuse, Humanism, Immortality, Longevity, Paula Kirby, Religion, Secular Humanism, Susan Ertz
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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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Jehovah’s witnesses and cryonics
When I was in New Zealand in 1999, CI Member Cam Christie told me that one of his co-workers was against cryonics because she was a Jehovah’s Witness and her church had a position against cryonics. I recently found an … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Immortality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Religion
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Lindbergh and Carrel’s quest to live forever
It’s difficult to follow up a best-selling book about the cultural history of the penis, but David M. Friedman has a knack for engaging readers in topics that others find difficult to broach. This time he tackles the touchy subject … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Science
Tagged Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh, Immortality, Isolatonism, Perfusion, Science
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The secular case against immortality
In 2003 George Hart published an article called “The Immortal’s Dilemma: Decontructing Eternal Life” , making a secular case against immortality. Hart mainly uses logical arguments and provides a fair amount of room to address a number of possible objections … Continue reading
The history of scientific immortalism
Now online is Mike Perry’s article “Historical Steps Toward the Scientific Conquest of Death.” This article was previously published in 2003 in Physical Immortality, a short-lived publication by the Society for Venturism. The article is adapted from Chapter 2 of … Continue reading
Radical life extension and information-theoretic death
Immortality as a zero probability of information-theoretic death may not be possible or realistic. A more practical (and less controversial) objective of radical life extension would be to minimize the chance of information-theoretic death. In analogy with Aubrey de Grey’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Aging, Cryonics, Death, Immortality, Nanotechnology, SENS
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Immortality and cryonics
In “Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction,” (in: Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy) John Martin Fischer and Ruth Curl construct a taxonomy for immortality. As can be seen in the figure on the … Continue reading
Ev Cooper’s cryonics classic published online
Few, if any, cryonicists today can retrace their personal interest in cryonics to Evan Cooper. Despite the broader recognition of Robert Ettinger’s book, “The Prospect of Immortality,” which was commercially published in 1964, Cooper’s privately published 1962 manuscript, “Immortality: Physically, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics, Ev Cooper, Immortality, Nathan Dhuring, Singularity, Society For Venturism, Transhumanism
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