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In Thy Orisons Be All My Sins Remembered*
By Daichi Sasaki EDITOR’S NOTE: The following text has been edited from a machine translation. I have tried to be as faithful to the original as possible. The title is mine – MD I came to visit the United States, … Continue reading
Myth and Memory in Cryonics
By Mike Darwin Steven B. Harris, M.D. In September of 1988, Steve Harris, M.D., published an essay entitled The Day the Earth Stood Still: Cryonics and the Resurrection of the Mythic Hero. It was one of his best in a … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics History, Cryonics Philosophy, Culture & Propaganda, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, BACS, Bay area Cryonics Society, Bill Moyers, body freezing, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, head freezing, Inc., Joseph Campbell, Many are Cold But Few Are Frozen, mike darwin, suspended animation, The Dead Ant Heap, The Power of Myth, The return of the krell Machine, The Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead, Trans Time, Will Cryonics Work
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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 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
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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