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- Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Survey results on the structural basis of memory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1578
Re: Survey results on the structural basis of memory
The scientists' responses have some obvious internal contradictions. The big one is how they treat C. elegans and humans differently. In the estimate of C. elegans emulation probability, there are very few "never" responses. But for humans, there are many "never" responses. This ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Freezer Storage
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2372
Freezer Storage
It looks like we will be moving our formalin-fixed brains from refrigerator storage into freezer storage. Yes, this will require some cryoprotection as a step after fixation. The freezer will be -20 C, which is much warmer than the -196 C achieved with liquid nitrogen. This means that the brains wil...
- Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 33377
Re: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
Hey, that's a good idea. If another one shows up, I'll browse anonymously to see if other people can see it.
- Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 33377
Re: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
Well, we had a few spam posts sneak through. Still not sure how. Any new user is supposed to require post approval, so I'll keep going through the settings to see if I missed something.
- Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Fruit fly brain upload
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8341
Re: Fruit fly brain upload
We do talk to them. Not sure what "joining" there is to be done. We all live in different cities and we are each doing the best we can. I can't really imagine anything more that we could do together than we already are.
- Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: London Futurists podcast episode
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4166
London Futurists podcast episode
I was a guest on the London Futurists Podcast in August: https://londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com/2028982/episodes/15517037-the-low-cost-future-of-preserving-brains-with-jordan-sparks I would also recommend listening to the related episodes featuring Emil Kendziorra, Max More, and Ken Hayworth which a...
- Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 33377
Re: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
The main new countermeasure is that all new user posts will require approval. If I have to waste too much time deleting those, then I might just require new users to call the office to get added.
- Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 33377
Re: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
Sorry about the spam. Working on a permanent fix.
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Fruit fly brain upload
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8341
Fruit fly brain upload
A fruit fly has successfully been uploaded. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y 140,000 neurons. It's the first complex brain to get uploaded. If you fire up the brain in an emulator and present it with a taste input, it will stick out it's tongue. How cool is that? I expect the quali...
- Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: about case reports
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14495
Re: about case reports
Just super busy. Trying to find some time. It won't happen next week as I'll be on vacation. I will try hard to at least keep a current posted list of all patients, even if no time for a case report. As for the donated bodies, we get over 100 per year. We won't post those.
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 33377
Registration disabled temporarily due to spammers
I just disabled registration of new users for a while. Too many spammers, and I won't be available to watch it closely this week. In a few weeks, I'll try to come up with a better anti-spam strategy and then turn it back on. Existing users can still make posts.
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Kurzweil uploads
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9371
Re: Kurzweil uploads
The beginnings of this technology already exist. Stentrode is a stent that gets implanted in blood vessels in the brain. It can be used in patients with severe paralysis caused by stroke, injury, ALS, etc. The stent has electrodes on it, making it a brain-computer interface. This feels like a much b...
- Sun Jun 30, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Kurzweil uploads
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9371
Kurzweil uploads
Kurzweil's latest book just came out. I'm not going to discuss his AI predictions because we each have our own constantly evolving opinions about the trajectory of AI. But what caught my attention was the idea of using nanobots in the brain capillaries to perform a mind upload. I've always said that...
- Mon Jun 03, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Laura Deming starts Cradle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9469
Laura Deming starts Cradle
https://www.cradle.xyz/page/problem-statement https://www.cradle.xyz/page/founder-letter Laura Deming is an entrepreneur who seems to get unwarranted press coverage and money from gullible people. Fine, she got into MIT at a young age -- good for her. But then she dropped out. That's not something t...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Fallout and 3 Body Problem
- Replies: 0
- Views: 14002
Fallout and 3 Body Problem
I just finished binge watching Fallout. Great show. Some of the ridiculous impossible technologies included cold fusion, brain in a jar, and cryonics. There are two fundamentally different ways of depicting cryonics. The nearly universal way that it's depicted on TV and in movies is as a suspended a...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: clarification for realistic life extension.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21420
Re: clarification for realistic life extension.
We're building a vault. While not underground, it will be reinforced concrete on all 6 sides. The plans are all drawn and stamped, but I'm having the engineer make a few minor changes. Should be ready to start building within a few months.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Remote cases and membership
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12519
Remote cases and membership
We have a tentative plan for doing remote cases. We will have a number of pathology specialists here on staff. They will be trained in our techniques and use them regularly. Airlines allow formaldehyde in checked baggage, so we will send out one or two specialists to the remote funeral home where th...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Robotic surgery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16269
Re: Robotic surgery
The robotic surgery was a total pipe dream, of course. But today we performed our first atraumatic brain extraction. No cuts and no overhandling. Our procedure and skills are getting better and better. It's not perfected yet, but it should be after a few dozen more cases. This was the first time tha...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: clarification for realistic life extension.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21420
Re: clarification for realistic life extension.
Agreed. Good job, and it sounds like you are on the right track. I would point out one little nagging detail, though. I'm not sure that your deanimation plan will succeed. That step is probably harder than most people naively assume. There's even a good chance that most historical cryonics cases did...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16556
Re: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
Absolutely. It's really hard to tell how long it will take because it depends heavily on exponential progress in AI. But I do know it will take a very long time even assuming continued exponential progress. We wouldn't have any hope at all of solving it in a reasonable timeframe if it was linear pro...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16556
Re: seed technology for brain reconstruction?
Good to see progress from different groups. I think that within about 60 years, we should have massively parallel 3D printers. By that, I mean thousands of very small robotic arms simultaneously 3D printing a single object. 60 years or so after that, such devices will have evolved to the point where...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Robotic surgery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16269
Robotic surgery
Removing a brain from a skull is rather difficult to do without damage. It's a problem that nobody else cares about. Scientists doing research don't care if they cause some damage because they can just use the undamaged tissue. A pathologist performing an autopsy doesn't care if they cause damage ei...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 57571
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
1. It's serious. 2. No, you do not seem to be capable. The only rational arguments allowed would be to point to a consensus position held by all the leading experts on the topic at hand. Diet is tougher to do science on, so the consensus might not be as strong as in other areas of science, but it wi...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 57571
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
The only people allowed to disagree with scientific consensus on a particular issue are a handful of other experts in that specific field. Nobody else is allowed to question them. This is not blind trust; it's rational trust. Why would I even think about believing a non-expert? This discussion is ab...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Life Extension as Backup Plan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 57571
Re: Life Extension as Backup Plan
One of my latest pages was sort of written with you in mind: https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html The scientific method specifically depends on trusting the consensus of groups of experts. I know I won't change your mind, but I also won't tolerate irrational posts here. Your irrational posts ...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Cryonics vs. Aldehyde
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21004
Cryonics vs. Aldehyde
Another new page
https://oregoncryo.com/cryonicsVsAldehyde.html
https://oregoncryo.com/cryonicsVsAldehyde.html
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Scientific Basis
- Replies: 0
- Views: 20867
Scientific Basis
A new page has been posted on our website:
https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html
https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: AI Correlation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 22291
Re: AI Correlation
I had never seen much need to recruit the masses. I guess I've changed my mind somewhat. But as the degree of separation increases, my incentive falls off sharply. I might start to reorganize my efforts around those close to me.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Max More post about Organizational Capability
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23870
Max More post about Organizational Capability
Max More just made a long post about organizational capability: https://biostasis.substack.com/p/critical-questions-about-patient He lists the two core capabilities that an organization must possess: quality preservation and longevity. He then gives some great historical background on a variety of f...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: AI Correlation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 22291
Re: AI Correlation
This particular forum is designed so that anyone can peruse it years later. The discussions persist and are easy to find. Starman regularly reads this forum.