Cryonics Symposium International
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:47 pm
Cryonics Symposium International is being held at the Church of Perpetual Life in Florida on Saturday, July 27, 2019. I'm not going. They are good people, and I'm sure they mean well, but this meeting does not increase my chance of survival for the following reasons:
-Its association with a "church" that regularly gives a forum to pseudoscientists makes me want to run screaming in the opposite direction.
-Distance between patient and provider must be less than 100 miles, and preferably less than 20 miles. Anything more than that is a complete waste of time. So these people on the other side of the country are not helping me survive at all, and I have nothing to offer them, either. But isn't something better than nothing? Well, no. If the provider is not immediately available upon death, then any procedure is most likely a meaningless ritual that does not preserve the mind.
-Their technology is bad. I would not want to be preserved by any of these organizations. They are all obsessed with the impossible goals of viability and suspended animation instead of scientifically rigorous ultrastructural preservation. Mike Perry is the exception, but his largely theoretical views have not had any effect on available services.
-I have a very clear path forward, which involves facilities, equipment, and staff. But my strategy does not involve any outreach, members, sponsors, or other cryonics organizations. I've given up on all of that as unworkable and distracting.
-Its association with a "church" that regularly gives a forum to pseudoscientists makes me want to run screaming in the opposite direction.
-Distance between patient and provider must be less than 100 miles, and preferably less than 20 miles. Anything more than that is a complete waste of time. So these people on the other side of the country are not helping me survive at all, and I have nothing to offer them, either. But isn't something better than nothing? Well, no. If the provider is not immediately available upon death, then any procedure is most likely a meaningless ritual that does not preserve the mind.
-Their technology is bad. I would not want to be preserved by any of these organizations. They are all obsessed with the impossible goals of viability and suspended animation instead of scientifically rigorous ultrastructural preservation. Mike Perry is the exception, but his largely theoretical views have not had any effect on available services.
-I have a very clear path forward, which involves facilities, equipment, and staff. But my strategy does not involve any outreach, members, sponsors, or other cryonics organizations. I've given up on all of that as unworkable and distracting.