Sparks Brain Preservation

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...

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 ...

Another new page
https://oregoncryo.com/cryonicsVsAldehyde.html

A new page has been posted on our website:
https://oregoncryo.com/scientificBasis.html

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.

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...

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.

The most likely revival scenario is digital rather than physical. This is also mostly likely to happen concurrently with the Great Upload, when all living humans are also uploading over a fairly short time period of less than a few decades. But why would a future society want to pay to upload underf...

I think we have a high percentage of independent rebellious types in our group. I'm not interested in stupid arguments about experts not being expert, or the scientific method not being good enough. Those arguments are fallacious and they are a distraction. I won't allow that kind of noise on this f...

Dennis, your position is irrational. I won't even address it with specific details because it's unworthy of a response. I will instead listen to the consensus of the experts. You are simply not qualified to interpret the evidence. You have quite the hubris to think that you are smarter than the expe...

After months of studying these latest longevity topics, I have decided that they are mostly fads that lack evidence. I don't have the expertise to actually make this judgement on my own, so what I've really been doing it trying to figure out what the consensus is among the true experts. It took me a...

Our new CT scanner has been installed and we have been trained. It's an OmniTom, which gets 16 slices instead of the 8 that our old CereTom got. Oregon Body Gift has now also been licensed as a NARRO, so it can legally accept whole body donations from the public for research. I just got the architec...

We are getting closer every day to being able to take those kinds of phone calls for local patients. It really doesn't do any good at all if you don't have a local advocate. If we get a phone call, we would have nobody to send to check on you unless you had a local advocate. The solution is going to...

My plan is to be surrounded by multiple people at all times when I'm old. I'm hoping this will be supplemented by much better technology because I'm still probably 35 years out. But my plan is expensive -- very expensive. I'm talking about private nurses around the clock in addition to various other...

Security certificate was installed by my stellar IT department. Thank you!

There's nothing like credit card info, so I didn't think it mattered. But I now see that usernames and passwords could be intercepted, so it's very high priority for me. I would recommend not logging in with your password until we get this resolved. I've delegated it to my IT department, so it shoul...

It's impossible to do the computations to unstir a solution if it's been stirred for more than a few seconds. It doesn't matter how much math you throw at it. It's absolutely impossible because the number of unknown variables exponentially explodes. It won't even be possible if you can calculate the...

Because I'm extremely extremely busy. I'll get to it, but it doesn't seem like a priority. The internet worked just fine without it before.

https://wellcome.org/reports/scaling-connectomics https://cms.wellcome.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Connectomics-scaling-up-connectomics.pdf Scanning the connectome would be a critical step in revival. Good progress is being made, and I just realized that there was a major flaw in my predictions....

For your specific situation, your approach sounds reasonable. It's hard to keep the container from leaking. If shipping by airline, don't leave any air space in the bucket, because that can expand at altitude and cause a leak. Also, airlines have limits on dry ice. If shipping ground or specialty tr...

If we don't store in LN2, then we would at least store in refrigeration so that the lipids were more solid. So I started planning out a huge walk-in refrigerator where we could store many racks of small containers. It then occurred to us that maybe we should make it a walk-in freezer because that mi...

Dr. Toner means well. He just thinks we're attempting suspended animation, but we're not. His confusion is understandable because a lot of prominent cryonicists are really pursuing suspended animation rather then purely structural brain preservation. They even gave the name Suspended Animation to on...

James Arrowood is the new Co-CEO of Alcor. He was interviewed recently in the following podcast: https://www.cryonicsunderground.com/1510453/13388129-james-arrowood-new-leadership-and-new-directions-at-alcor Boy, he's a talker. Nearly 3 hours. I ran it at 2x speed. Here are some things I learned: Al...

Yes, it's definitely time for us to rebrand. We're completely dropping the "cryonics" label and fully adopting the "brain preservation" label. Our new name will be Oregon Brain Preservation. The transition will take a little while. As I said in another thread, the motivation behi...

I've now removed a fair number of brains, so I'm developing some opinions about the procedure. Many of them were research cases rather than patients, and the quality was admittedly not ideal. So after I had removed the first few, I decided firmly that I would not want that done to my brain because o...

Yes, we plan to regularly publish in mainstream science journals. It might be time to rebrand away from "cryonics" right now. While we will always do some cryonics, the majority of our patients are chemically preserved instead. Perhaps the name of the company should reflect that majority. ...

I've always had a little trouble explaining to people why we use fixative and then also cryopreserve. Fixative works very well, so what additional advantage are we getting from the liquid nitrogen? Everyone in the cryonics community has generally agreed that we need cryopreservation, so I've basical...

Our sister company, Apex Neuroscience, is finally up and running. http://apexneuro.org/ Apex does all the research, works out the protocols, and has deep expertise. Oregon Cryonics owns all the equipment and the building. The main advantage of this arrangement is that Apex will be a 501c3, so that i...

How exciting for you! I hope you are able to keep it going.

We already did a rough version of an app that let members apply. They entered info in all the fields and it was stored in our server. It also tracked membership status, payment status, life insurance status, etc. It took a lot of time. And then it was hard to maintain. The server is still sitting th...