Monthly Archives: May 2011

Going, Going, Gone… Part 3

The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists WHAT ABOUT THE SINGULARITY AND OUR IMMINENT RESCUE BY ADVANCES IN GERONTOLOGY? Figure 19: Putative technological timeline for the development of technologies now thought to be required to … Continue reading

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Going, Going, Gone… Part 2

The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists By Mike Darwin SENIOR MOMENTS Interestingly, and perhaps somewhat hopefully, the decay of PP axons seems confined largely to two of the nine circuits in this system, as … Continue reading

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Going, Going, Gone…

The Urgent Need for a Brain Centered Approach to Geroprotection for Cryonicists Part I: A Survey of the Problem & a Proposed New Strategy By Mike Darwin 1964: Dying Then vs. Dying Now In 1964, the year The Prospect of … Continue reading

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A Visit to Alcor

  “Are you interested in the whole body or the neuro? And would you like fries and a Coke with that?” By Mike Darwin Introduction A short while ago, I hosted 3 visitors from the Russian cryonics organization KrioRus. During … Continue reading

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