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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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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
Posted in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine
Tagged .MRI scan, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, Holter monitoring, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 3
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Removing a Central Objection to Cryonics In case you missed it, what I just said in that slim paragraph at the end of the preceding … Continue reading
Posted in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine
Tagged .MRI scan, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, Holter monitoring, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 2
How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Ischemia: The Problem of “Long Down Time” Almost every cryonicist I’ve ever spoken with envisions his cryopreservation will occur under ideal circumstances. He … Continue reading
Posted in Gerontology, Medicine
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan. MRI scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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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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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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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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