Cryonics
| A recent London Futurists Hangout on Air featured a discussion between an international panel of people with practical experience of the world of cryonics: Max More, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Garret Smyth. |
What lies in the future for cryonics - the practice of low-temperature suspended animation of people who have died of an incurable disease, in the hope of a future cure?
This London Futurists Hangout on Air features a discussion between an international panel of people with practical experience of the world of cryonics: Max More, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Garret Smyth.
The discussion with David Wood covers:
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• Recent developments in the world of cryonics, and anticipated future improvements;
• Why has the take-up of cryonics been comparatively low so far, and what steps might change that state of affairs?
• Objections to cryonics - and responses to the objections;
• Cryonics in context - new attitudes towards death and technology.
The Mores and Sandberg are involved with Alcor, the long-running cryonics foundation in Arizona. According to Alcor, today brain tissue preserved with a modern vitrification solution shows virtually no freezing damage. Whole neurons are visible with intact membranes and well defined structure. This brain preservation which Alcor claims it can now achieve in human patients. Many who complain about damage caused by cryonics procedures are unaware that such preservation is now possible.
SOURCE David Wood
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