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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
Your Picture Won’t Be Hanging Here?
Reception area of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside, CA in April of 1987. The photos above the refreshments cart were of some of the patients in Alcor’s care at that time. Sometimes we get defeated by technology, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culture & Propaganda, Philosophy
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, body freezing, brain cryopreservation, cryobiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopatient, head freezing, Max More, mike darwin, neuropreservation, suspended animation
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Bon Voyage, Fred Chamberlain
By Mike Darwin Me and Mei Lei, settling down after dinner and a peek at the heart of the time machine, which was then kept in a shed in back of the the Chamberlains’ home in La Crescenta, in 1973. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics Biography, Cryonics History
Tagged Alcor Foundation, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Bioquagmire, brain cryopreservation, brain cryopreservatioon, brain freezing, CBeRev.org, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryostasis, Fred Chamberlain, Frederick Rockwell Chamberlain, head freezing, III, Jr., Life Quest, LifeNaut.com, Linda Chamberlain, Linda Lee Chamberlain, mike darwin, Mindfiles, neuropreservation, Star Pebble, Terasem
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i Birth of a NeoInsurgent Cryonicst
By CryoX Illustrations by Mike Darwin This is a work of fiction {or is it?} We Froze the First Fly. Great title. I could have written it. I should have written it. I’m an insect endocrinologist. This futon in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cryobiology, Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culturomics, Philosophy
Tagged arthur rowe, bathhouse, body freezing, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryobiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryonics ethics, cryonics morality, drosophila, freezing, frozen flies, frozen fruit flies, gay men, mike darwin, neuropreservation, proline, science fair, susan boyle, suspended animation
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Inheritance and Disinheritance Are Not For Us
by Mike Darwin Michael B. Federowicz and Ella A. Rorhman circa 1954 Yesterday, I learned my parents, both of them, had died a little over 4 months ago. The call came from a staffer at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. … Continue reading
Three Strikes and You’re Out!
By Mike Darwin Left: Science Fiction writer Fred Pohl, with friend. Predicting the future is a tough business. It is an especially tough business when it is proposed that the prediction be highly specific and technically accurate. Say, akin to … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics Biography, Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culture & Propaganda, Philosophy
Tagged body freezing, brain cryopreservation, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryonic suspension, cryonics, fred pohl, fred pohl and immortality, frederick pohl, head freezing, immortality, mike darwin, mike darwin and fred pohl, neuropreservation, robert ettinger and fred pohl, science fiction and cryonics, viktor frankel, viktor frankel and cryonics
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Through A Glass Darkly: Obstacles to Envisioning the Future of Cryonics
By Mike Darwin I think every cryonicist carries in his head his own unique model of the “future of cryonics.” Furthermore, I think that each individual cryonicist carries around a largely arbitrary and unique set of standards, rules and … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Philosophy
Tagged Alcor, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, cryonics, cryonics code of standards, cryonics ethics, Cryonics Institute, cryonics morality, cryonics morals, cryonics regulation, future of technology, technological forecasting, the future of cryonics
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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 3
IV. EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE HISTOLOGY OF SELECTED TISSUES (Left Ventricle and Cerebral Cortex) Left Ventricle Figure 43: The myofibrils of each cardiac muscle cell are branched and contain a single nucleus. The branches interlock with those of adjacent … Continue reading
Posted in Cryobiology, Cryonics History, Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Tagged body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, brain ischemia, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryobiiology, cryobiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, glycerolization, head freezing, mike darwin, neuropreservation, reanimation, reperfusion, suspended animation, ultrastructure of frozen brains
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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 2
IV. EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE HISTOLOGY OF SELECTED TISSUES (Liver and Kidneys) Histology was evaluated in two animals each from the FIG and FIGP groups, and in one control animal. Only brain histology was evaluated in the straight-frozen control … Continue reading
Posted in Cryobiology, Cryonics History, Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Tagged body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain cryopreservation, brain freezing, brain ischemia, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryobiiology, glycerolization, head freezing, mike darwin, neuropreservation, post mortem chsanges, reanimation, reperfusion, suspended animation, ultrastructure of frozen brains
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THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 1
by Michael Darwin, Jerry Leaf, Hugh L. Hixon I. Introduction II. Materials and Methods III Effects of Glycerolization IV. Gross Effects of Cooling to and Rewarming From -196°C I. INTRODUCTION The immediate goal of human cryopreservation is to use current … Continue reading
Posted in Cryobiology, Cryonics History, Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Perfusion, Uncategorized
Tagged body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain cryopreservation, brain freezing, brain ischemia, CNS cryobiology, connectome, cryobiiology, cryonic suspension, cryonics, glycerolization, head freezing, ischemia, mike darwin, neuropreservation, post mortem chsanges, reperfusion, suspended animation, therapeutic hypothermia, ultrastructure of frozen brains
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