Informed Radical Life Extension, by Design
Humanity+ Chair Natasha Vita-More speaks at the recent TransVision 2104 Conference on the topic of “Informed Radical Life Extension, by Design”.
Category: Cryonics
The Transhumanist Wager: Can We and Should We Defeat Death?
The Transhumanist Wager, brainchild of noted transhumanist Zoltan Istvan, can be understood as follows. If one loves and values their life, then they will want (the option) to live as long as possible. How do they achieve this?
Resuscitation, by Cryonics or Otherwise, Is a Religious Mandate
A well known and atheist-minded Transhumanist, Zoltan Istvan blames religion for an anti-cryonics law in Canada.
Suspended Animation is About to Become a Reality
In the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact, an American crew are kept in suspended animation on a Soviet ship enroute to Jupiter to find out what happened to the American Discovery spacecraft. Upon reaching Jupiter the Americans are awakened from cryogenic pods to carry out their mission.
Video Friday: Thoughts on Transhumanism and Religion from Natasha Vita-More
In this inspirational video h+ Chair Natasha Vita-More discusses transhumanism, the future body, extending life, preservation of memories, her amazing experiments with memory preservation following vitrification and revival of c. elegans worms, and more.
The Forever and Ever-New Melodies of R. Michael Perry
R. Michael Perry is more than a PhD, the Care Services Manager at Alcor Life Extension Foundation, an author (Forever for All: Moral Philosophy, Cryonics and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality) and a universal thinker. He is a composer. He composed “Opus 1” in 2013. After purchasing his CD at a life- extension conference recently, I didn’t open it to play for a week or two. It merely sat on my desk as if it was beckoning me to play it. Frankly, I loved the image on the cover of the CD, and having known Mike for two decades or longer as a life-extensionists and an ordained Minister of the Society of Venturism (in fact, he was the minister who married my husband and me back in 1996), I had no idea he was also a composer.
Transhumanism and the History of Bitcoin
What has Transhumanism got to do with the history of BitCoin? Actually quite a bit.
Bioethicists must rethink the concept of death: the idea of brain death is not appropriate for cryopreservation
Death has historically been believed to be an event that coincided with the onset of clinical death. It is now understood that death is a series of physical events, not a single event, and that the determination of permanent death is dependent on other factors beyond the simple cessation of breathing and heartbeat. We may need to accept the concept of the life cycle assessment introduced by nanotechnology or astrobiology, a process that is often called transhumanism.
The Church of Perpetual Life, Zombie Philosophers and Russian Cosmism
November 16th marked the first service of the Church of Perpetual Life in the former Bethel Romanian Methodist Church in Hollywood Florida.