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Cryonics: An Historical Failure Analysis, Lecture 2: Inherent Failure Mechanisms and Risks, Part 3
THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE SLIDE 137 Alcor had achieved an exponential rate of membership growth by the time Jerry Leaf was cryopreserved. Since that time, there has been only modest growth of membership and in fact, in the years since … Continue reading
Cryonics: An Historical Failure Analysis, Lecture 2: Inherent Failure Mechanisms and Risks, Part 2
By Mike Darwin CRYONICS’ THIRD ERA: 1981-1991 EVIDENCE-BASED, MEDICALLY- MODELED, RESEARCH- DRIVEN SLIDE 119 In January of 1980 I had the good fortune to perform two human cryopreservations back-to-back with Jerry Leaf (then associated with Trans Time) in Southern California. … Continue reading
Cryonics: An Historical Failure Analysis, Lecture 2: Inherent Failure Mechanisms and Risks, Part 1
By Mike Darwin 1972-1991 AWAKENING TO REALITY SLIDE 96 As I said in the previous lecture, the literature produced by CSNY created an impression of competence and of the presence of a solid organization. After I had been involved in … Continue reading
Cryonics: Failure Analysis, Lecture 1, Initialization Failure, Part 4
By Mike Darwin THE PROBLEM OF NO FEEDBACK SLIDE 87 How did these things happen? How did sincere, hard working, committed people who desperately wanted cryonics for themselves allow the situations I’ve just described – the woefully inadequate perfusion capabilities … Continue reading
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Specimen Standards for Evidence-Based Human Cryopreservation Organizations, Part 1
By Mike Darwin A Brief History of Attempts to Create and Implement Minimum Standards in Cryonics INTRODUCTION First Era 1964-1972 The first attempt to create formal minimum standards for cryonics organizations in the form of the Cryonics Societies of America … Continue reading
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Cryonics: Failure Analysis, Lecture 1, Initialization Failure, Part 3
By Mike Darwin FRAUDS & FAKIRS SLIDE 57 While this small corps of serious and honest people was hard at work trying to re-launch cryonics on a solid footing, the legacy of the first era of careless and irresponsible cryonics … Continue reading
Cryonics: Failure Analysis: Lecture 1: Initialization Failure, Part 2
By Mike Darwin FAILURE OF HUSBANDRY SLIDE 34 The core ideas of cryonics, that death is a function of remaining biological structure (information), technological sophistication, and that deep cooling can arrest decay and preserve structure indefinitely to await resurrection by … Continue reading
Cryonics: Failure Analysis: Lecture 1: Preface and Initialization Failure, Part 1
By Mike Darwin This series of lectures had its origin in a presentation entitled Cryonics: Why it has failed, and possible ways to fix it, which was delivered at an ExtroBritannia meeting on Saturday August 2, 2008 at Birkberk College … Continue reading
Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 5
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! Saving Lives Now? Coronary Artery Disease and Vasculopathy I’ve been at pains here to emphasize that the primary purpose of the DSS is to alert cryonicists to … Continue reading
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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 4
Screening for the Risk of Deanimation The term “screening” is used in medicine to describe routine examinations or diagnostic procedures of a defined group of individuals to identify diseases or risk factors for same at an early stage. Screening … Continue reading
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