Buddhism and the scientific worldview
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’t support its fans’ claims about happiness…The developed countries where Buddhism has had the [...]
Promoting cerebral blood flow in cryonics patients
It has been shown that perfusability of the brain is significantly compromised after long-term (>5 min) ischemic events (the “no reflow” 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 [...]