Talk:Cryonics
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[edit] Long term notes (sticky)
- "Freezing": Let it be taken as a given that when someone refers to freezing living/recently dead tissue, they mean reducing its temperature to the liquid nitrogen range, using all available means to prevent the formation of destructive ice crystals (such as the "vitrification" process).
- See also: Human's random musings on the general topic at Essay:On cryonics or similar technology
I wanted to add the first note to reduce silly correction battles over terminology; the second got archived and without the link here no one will ever go mock my essay. Thank you. ħuman
19:19, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Pascal's Wager Section
David Shaw has a paper on Pascal's Wager and cryonics which could be used to expand the section on that subject: http://philpapers.org/rec/SHACSL
- If Pascal's Wager is work, which choice is more rational and wise ? Cryonics or Religion (e.g. Christianity) or Both (but you may be seriously punished by God because God don't like people practice cryonics) ?
[edit] Bob Nelson speaks
[1] This is fucking amazing to read - David Gerard (talk) 23:15, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
[edit] Footnotes (sticky)
[edit] Do any of these people matter?
Can someone who knows what they're doing review this webpage:
http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/scientists-open-letter-on-cryonics/Ike (talk) 03:18, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
- A few actual neuroscientists amongst a whole lot of unrelated fields - David Gerard (talk) 17:22, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
[edit] Another question is
... are the people who have themselves "frozen with added antifreeze chemicals" when they have been clinically declared dead (and their relatives having not successfully contested the will on the grounds of unnecessary expense of processing and maintenance etc) going to be the ones that those who actually develop the technology are going to wish to revive?
Makes far more sense to invest in a combination of "complex recording devices" and "(uncanny-valley subverting)humanoid-robotic development" and get yourself uploaded in due course (unless people wish to be transferred to animal-robots or plant-robots), or get transferred into an online world using (incomprehensible technobabble about a system not yet developed)' 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:22, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
[edit] PZ on cryonicists again
[2] - includes comment from cryobiologist who apparently talks about this at length in a podcast (no transcript).
Also: A lot of the reference links here have gone stale and need refreshing - David Gerard (talk) 17:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)