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• Cryonics and philosophy of science

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) The 2008-3 issue of Alcor’s Cryonics Magazine contains a number of articles about the pitfalls of (excessive) scientific optimism and its potential adverse effects on the organizational and practical aspects Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:53 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 0 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, death, meliorism, Information-theoretic Death, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Singularity, Transhumanism

• The purple prose of suspended animation

  (Crossposted from Depressed Metabolism ) Esquire magazine features an article on scientist Mark Roth and his research into “suspended animation.” As the website title “The Mad Scientist Bringing Back the Dead…. Really” indicates, Read More...
  Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 8:19 AM by Aschwin de Wolf / 1 Comments

  Tags: cryonics, vitrification, depressed metabolism, Information-theoretic Death, Suspended Animation, Ikaria, Mark Roth