Immortality and Plan B: Cryopreservation
We still need a Plan B to try to keep people alive, and that is cryopreservation for those unlucky to die before we can cure aging.
Category: Immortality
The People Who Think We Could Live Forever
Part of BBC’s ‘Intelligent Machines Week’ and includes an excellent interview with Humanity+ board member Dr. Ben Goertzel, and more.
Video Friday: Immortality via Consciousness Transference and Self/Less
What is the science behind the movie Self/Less starring Ryan Reynolds and Sir Ben Kingsley?
Video Friday: Dr. Max More at the Church of Perpetual Life — Cryonics & the Future of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Max More, President & CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, on Cryonics & the Future of Emergency Medicine.
Immortality 101
Fairy tale immortality, whereby you drink an elixir and there, you’re indestructible, is a fool’s errand.
Chappie: A Transhumanist Perspective
‘Chappie’ (2015) surprised me with the most pro-transhumanist message I’ve seen in a major film.
Reversal of Informational Entropy and the Acquisition of Germ-like Immortality by Somatic Cells
Persistent, structured information-sharing in both virtual and real domains, leads to increased biological complexity and functionality
Biology is Technology — DARPA is Back in the Game With A Big Vision and It Is H+
DARPA, the Defense Research Projects Agency, is best known for its role as progenitor of the Internet. Now they want to revolutionize biotechnology.
Mindclones from Social Media: New Research from Stanford Suggests Feasibility
In popular sci-fi show ‘Black Mirror’, realistic digital personalities of the dead, mind clones, are recreated from data alone. How realistic is this idea?
