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Casual Conversation: A Remembrance of Things Past
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel Proust By Mike Darwin A Digital Ark A couple of years ago I did a … Continue reading
The Armories of the Latter Day Laputas, Part 4
By Mike Darwin “Possibly the most important discovery we have made about ourselves is that Man is a Wild Animal. He cannot be tamed and remain man: his genius is bound up in the very qualities that make him wild…Not … Continue reading
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Future Babble: A Review and Commentary
McClelland & Stewart (October 12, 2010) ISBN-10: 0771035195 Book Review and Commentary by Mike Darwin The success of cryonics, both in absolute and relative terms, arguably depends upon the accuracy and precision with which we (cryonicists) can predict the … Continue reading
The Armories of the Latter Day Laputas – Part 2
By Mike Darwin Figure 11: Linda Chamberlain (and dog Terra) stands next to the emergency entry/egress site of the Titan 1 missile site near Yuba City, CA. We spent 2 days at Titan 1 Base # 1, which was attached … Continue reading
The Armories of the Latter Day Laputas – Part 1
Figure 1: A very special apple orchard in Pervomaysk, Ukraine. Laputa was the fictional floating city in Jonathan Swift’s 1726 bitingly satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, whose inhabitants could maneuver about using magnetic levitation. Laptua was populated by a ruling class … Continue reading
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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Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now
Over the past few years there has been increasing friction between a subset of cryonicists, and people in the Transhumanist (TH) and Technological Singularity communities, most notably those who follow the capital N, Nanotechnology doctrine.[1, 2] Or perhaps more accurately, … Continue reading
Cryonicists, Teach Your Children Well
By Mike Darwin “You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good bye. Teach your children well, Their father’s hell did slowly go … Continue reading
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How Not to Get Ahead in Cryonics: Using Google Ngram Technology to Expose Flawed Decision Making in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin The High Price of Mortality The slate of human experience is wiped clean approximately every two generations (~ 50 years). This so far inescapable fact has had disastrous consequences for both cultures and civilizations. While it is … Continue reading