Human end-of-life preservation for later revival
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Everyone should be preserved after they die.
We want a human future. It's finally possible to preserve people well enough that they could be eventually restored.
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Everyone should be preserved after they die.
We want a human future. It's finally possible to preserve people well enough that they could be eventually restored.
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The Brain Preservation Foundation says that our technique preserves "with such fidelity that the structure of every neuronal process and every synaptic connection remained intact and traceable using today's electron-microscopic imaging techniques."
brainpreservation.org/tech-p…
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Everything you've ever learned is stored in your synapses. Fixation locks them in place: in ~60 sec glutaraldehyde forms "a gel that traps essentially all proteins, DNA, lipids." The case for preserving the dying, even before revival is possible.
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I wrote an essay about whether cryonics still makes sense on the eve of the singularity.
lesswrong.com/posts/arAgLxoh…
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