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- Sun Jul 07, 2019 9:22 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: ASC vs Vitrification
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20593
Re: ASC vs Vitrification
I think ASC is suitable for future revival -- even better than older cryonics technology.
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:09 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: ECMO as last will
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12621
Re: ECMO as last will
No, it's not easier for a clinician to learn a different cannulation technique than to learn to fly a small plane. It only takes 10 to 20 hours of flying before you are allowed to solo. From there you have additional skills you could learn and you also have to do it regularly to maintain proficiency...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: ECMO as last will
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12621
Re: ECMO as last will
I've ignored New Cryonet for a long time because they have no new information to offer me. This forum also has no new information to offer me, but it is one way to provide clarity about what I'm doing. I have no intention of reading Mr. (not Dr.) Darwin's 11 page response. While his medical knowledg...
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Wait but Why
- Replies: 23
- Views: 91559
Re: Wait but Why
You still don't get it. The quality is really bad if you don't perfuse while the patient is still alive and healthy . Our patients are not alive and they are not healthy. Their brains have already suffered ischemia in the hours leading up to death as well as after death. 30 minutes of cooling might ...
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: New electron micrographs?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10586
Re: New electron micrographs?
I'm a clinician, not a researcher. So we don't really do research here, but we instead work on refining clinical procedures to make them blazing fast and extremely reliable. I took down that one report #4 precisely because I'm not a researcher. A poor result from someone who doesn't perform research...
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:05 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Wait but Why
- Replies: 23
- Views: 91559
Re: Wait but Why
The surgical technique is described here:
http://oregoncryo.com/manual/cannulae.html
http://oregoncryo.com/manual/surgicalProcedures.html
Liquid ventilation would be far slower than the technique above. Also, cooling is far less effective than actual perfusion.
http://oregoncryo.com/manual/cannulae.html
http://oregoncryo.com/manual/surgicalProcedures.html
Liquid ventilation would be far slower than the technique above. Also, cooling is far less effective than actual perfusion.
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 2:44 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Website updated
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9032
Website updated
It's been a few years, so I updated most of the pages on our website. I got rid of links to the member portal because member growth is no longer a goal, and members are a costly distraction. I also removed the page about the Reanimation Fund as an overfunding mechanism. Overfunding now just goes int...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:04 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Wait but Why
- Replies: 23
- Views: 91559
Re: Wait but Why
Well, never in my natural lifetime. Never in the next 50 years at least.
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:50 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Wait but Why
- Replies: 23
- Views: 91559
Re: Wait but Why
Yes, hypothermia would be great, but as you agreed, it's never going to be used on a cryonics patient. Even the laws for pets won't allow premortem hypothermia.
Biostasis
Biostasis is a terrible word in cryonics. Biostasis actually refers to the ability of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi to stay alive in extreme conditions. As environmental conditions later improve, their cells recover and function normally again. Any scientist seeing the word biostasis in ...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:13 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Wait but Why
- Replies: 23
- Views: 91559
Re: Wait but Why
I consider cooling to be a second line of defense. Immediate chemical treatment of the cells to halt metabolism and add cross-links should be the primary goal. But since we know that perfusion is not uniform, cold perfusate can be used to slow metabolism in nearby tissue. Conductive heat transfer is...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:56 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Wait but Why
- Replies: 23
- Views: 91559
Wait but Why
There's a fairly well written article about cryonics here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html But the ideas that it lays out are flawed, and are based on the utopian Alcor and CI themes instead of on science. 1. Become a member, get a life insurance policy, wear a bracelet, die. This might...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Helping the cryonics cause
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44017
Re: Helping the cryonics cause
> Maybe you say this so that people realize what they are up against. Yes, that's right. And no, I have not succeeded. I might succeed in the future, but this is way harder than I ever thought it would be. Someone with less resources will fail. I'm not trying to discourage conversations and a few sp...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:49 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Helping the cryonics cause
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44017
Re: Helping the cryonics cause
No, neither of those is my point. I'll be super simple and blunt. If you want to help cryonics get more members, or if you want to help start a new organization to improve local support, you can't. Quit thinking you can.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:58 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Reanimation Fund options?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8452
Re: Reanimation Fund options?
Your post was hard for me to read. I think what you are saying is that you want to put $50k into a fund that would pay for transfer to CI if we go bankrupt. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Also, the pages you are referencing on our website are looking out of date, so the discussion would be bette...
- Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Cryonics Symposium International
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12413
Re: Cryonics Symposium International
I agree that we aren't doing any better than them. That's kind of my point. All the services from all the organizations are terrible useless rituals almost all the time. I will make some changes to the website to make that more clear. There is a fair amount of outdated info on there which shows hist...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:47 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Cryonics Symposium International
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12413
Cryonics Symposium International
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 "ch...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:40 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Helping the cryonics cause
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44017
Re: Helping the cryonics cause
My advice is the most rational, so I think it's also the most common course of action, including in all your examples. My advice won't change anyone's mind. I'm just stating what should be obvious and what most people already do intuitively. Aubrey probably followed that path because he wanted to so...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: 1% chance of survival
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12906
Re: 1% chance of survival
When I go to cryonics calculator, all the risks are clearly for phase II. So their characterization as "success" vs "failure" is accurate in the context of phase II. But it doesn't address phase I at all. Yet when you say that you are looking out for ways to improve that number, ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:15 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: 1% chance of survival
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12906
1% chance of survival
I see 1% getting thrown around a lot in various contexts. The usual claim is that a 1% chance of revival if cryopreserved is better than the 0% chance if cremated. This is sometimes bolstered by a claim that the payoff is billions of years of additional life, so the 1% translates to millions of year...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:19 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Helping the cryonics cause
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44017
Re: Helping the cryonics cause
That's the complete opposite of what I'm suggesting. How does quitting your daytime job help ensure your survival? It would just make you poor and unfunded. I'm trying to discourage people from any outreach, fundraising, volunteering, etc. My entire point is that it's all completely useless because ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 4:55 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Helping the cryonics cause
- Replies: 16
- Views: 44017
Helping the cryonics cause
I talk to many people who want to help advance cryonics. They want to somehow contribute to our cause. Well, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there's really nothing you can do. It's too big of a problem, and you have too few resources. You can't volunteer or donate or do anything else tha...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: how many OC members?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22989
Re: how many OC members?
I'm assuming you've already downgraded to neuro, if possible. I'm also assuming you're talking about a few years from now, when we are fully up and running. Nearby small towns don't seem like a good idea to me because that distance would add significant time to any response. But a 30 minute wait for...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:50 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: how many OC members?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22989
Re: how many OC members?
I don't know. Maybe seven. We discourage it unless you live in Salem. It's totally pointless to sign up for a service that is so far away that nobody can possibly get to you in time. This is also why I let my Alcor and CI memberships lapse years ago. You really need to live in the same city as your ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:07 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: ASC vs. O.C. $1K aldehyde bath + molecular brain scan
- Replies: 17
- Views: 64724
Re: ASC vs. O.C. $1K aldehyde bath + molecular brain scan
No, high quality chemical fixation alone is not good enough. Damage over time is very significant due to molecular motion. There is no sharp deadline on how fast fixation must be followed by cryopreservation, but it's in the range of hours, not years.
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:47 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Danielle Baker
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12675
Re: Danielle Baker
Well, believing in something doesn't make it true. We know that preserving all molecular structure, including all synapses, axons, DNA, etc. would preserve memory. But it's just not plausible that the DNA alone is enough. I've thought about this exact issue for years. Tell you what, go try to convin...
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:28 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Danielle Baker
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12675
Re: Danielle Baker
In spite of my strong feelings of injustice in this case, I think it's also worth noting that Doug Bowling did not actually harm Danielle. Her chances of revival were already zero. I believe her body went undiscovered for about three days. There was nothing left of her mind by that point. It was irr...
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 4:26 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Danielle Baker
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12675
Danielle Baker
Zoltan Istvan just contributed an article to Quartz: https://qz.com/1555363/cryogenics-is-facing-legal-trouble-with-body-preservation/ I'm quoted in it. While the quotes are technically accurate, I'm not sure the context is accurate. I think the best thing to do here is to just list out what I think...
- Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:17 am
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Alcor CT Scanner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21992
Re: Alcor CT Scanner
Hmm. They don't seem to have it on their website yet. It was in an Alcor newsletter sent out to members by email, which someone then kindly forwarded to me. I'll post it here for now, and then replace the text with a link, once they have it up: by Max More The first major acquisition paid for by the...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:41 pm
- Forum: Forum
- Topic: Why not invite Ben Best?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23734
Re: Why not invite Ben Best?
Not really. I remember he posted at least one photo series on his FB page and described his visit in detail.