Cryonics

[ciphergoth]

I'm considering signing up with the Cryonics Institute. Are you signed up? I'd be interested to hear your reasons why or why not. It does of course sound crazy, but when you press past that initial reaction to find out why it's crazy, I haven't heard a really satisfactory argument yet, and I'm interested to hear what people think. There are many reasons it might not work, but are there reasons to think it's really unlikely to work? How likely does recovery need to be for it to be worth it?

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Re: the link in my last para

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Oops. I've obviously not been keeping up. The main thrust of his argument used to be that there were a fairly small number of intracellular processes that caused most of the symptoms of age, and if you could knock these out then the problem would become significantly more tractable.

Re: the link in my last para

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is his position, but he also thinks that cryonics is at least worth taking seriously. I didn't ask him if he was personally signed up.

Re: the link in my last para

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Yes, he's still doing that work and gave a fascinating presentation on it at ExtroBritannia a few months ago, but he has also spoken at a cryonics conference in support.

Re: the link in my last para

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Have found a transcript of a presentation by him on his work and on cryonics.