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Chronosphere- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 2
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Tag Archives: Mike Perry
Is a life worth starting? Some personal views
For life—the life of any sentient creature—to be worth living, there must, as Robert Ettinger has often said, be a preponderance of satisfaction over dissatisfaction. If this overall slant toward good rather than bad is maintained, it seems reasonable that … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death, Science
Tagged Antinatalism, Cryonics, David Benatar, Forever for All, Immortalism, Mike Perry, Pessimism
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Review of ‘Better Never to Have Been’
Review of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 “Would that I had never been born” is a lament sometimes voiced in the depth of misfortune, a … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Living, Cryonics, Death
Tagged Antinatalism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Better Never to Have Been, Cryonics, David Benatar, Human Enhancement, Immortalism, Mike Perry
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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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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