Comments on: Eleventh Hour: They Only Freeze the Heads!

By: Kalifer Deil

Kalifer Deil — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:18:01 +0000

I will have my head frozen when my time comes. I’m an engineer and science fiction author. “Flight of the Soul”, a play by yours truly, addresses most of the issues regarding life after death. It is available free in e-book form from Smashwords.com. Within 50 to 75 years we will be able to take a frozen brain and download it to a future super computer. It is not as difficult as one might think, probably a lot easier than the research and technology necessary to go to Mars.
At first a downloaded person will be a virtual person living in a virtual world but with contact with the external world. A little later an android body will be available but it will still be connected by radio to a super computer. Eventually a computer with sufficient power will fit in an android body. In less that ten years we will have computers capable of emulating the human brain so it may be that an android body and brain will be waiting for the first mind download. It will be an interesting time since there will be no cap on how far one’s intelligence can be expanded. It will be limited only by resources (money) and the current state of the art. But lookout for people like Yassmin (9. above) or those more extreme. They will not take this revolution lightly. Here we will have a true eternal life, not a vague promise that religion offers to a select few.

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By: Yassmin

Yassmin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:52:41 +0000

this Practice is unethical to the point where the scientists should be put on trial. Its sickening.

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:59:01 +0000

Does anyone else think of the cartoon “Futurama”? All the re-animated heads in jars?

By: Van Armenya

Van Armenya — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:12:55 +0000

Ethylene glycol will fry his future kidneys to bits. Will need a couple of kidneys as spare parts, too. Severed heads cannot be re-wired to a cloned body. Also, who said we can clone a body? LOL The chances of success is zero but there is a chance that at thawing the brain will fell pain from the severed neck’s free nerve endings and the scientists will be haunted forever at the eyes looking helplessly at them for 5 seconds before dying off, again.

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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:11:56 +0000

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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:39 +0000

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By: Adam Selene

Adam Selene — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:13:42 +0000

What are your chances of survival if you are buried in the ground to rot, or are burned to ash? I don’t know about you, but I’d choose a 1 in 400 chance over a zero chance any day.

By: Frank Glover

Frank Glover — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:04:38 +0000

“All of which does raise some questions for the great colony ships of SciFi yore. So many plots rely on some sort of suspension of animation to keep people alive and young for their multi-century travels across space. Freezing them, for reanimation later, doesn’t seem the best plan.”

Of course, you clearly wouldn’t attempt such a voyage until the technology to revive the crew (and done totally automated, at that), probably using suspension techniques even better than today’s, also existed and was well demonstrated…

And indeed, I might expect that ability and the capacity for limited interstellar travel, to occur at roughly the same time.

By: Ben Best

Ben Best — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:46 +0000

It is correct to say that the technology to revive
cryopreserved patients has yet to be developed, but
that is not the same as having “no clue” about the
technology required. There are many “clues”, about
what future technologies may be able to do, which
is why many cryonicists ascribe a very positive
probability to revival.

Future revival will be contingent upon technology
that can cure all diseases, rejuvenate people to
a youthful condition and repair injuries caused by
the cryopreservation process. Diseases are not
magic, they are mechanical damage caused by
damaging agents of various kinds. If damage due
to disease and aging can be repaired on the molecular
level, then damage due to cryoprotectant toxicity
and even freezing could potentially be repaired.
Stem cells very probably will be useful in
replacement of organs and tissues that cannot
be repaired on the macromolecular level.

A detailed explanation of the science
behind cryonics procedures can be found at:

http://www.cryonics.org/reports/Scientific_Justification.pdf

You cite a paper which calculates the probability
of cryonics working as being no better than 15%. But in
the appendix of that paper another scientist calculates
the probability of success to be between 13 and 77% –
probabilities more in line with the estimates of
most cryonicists.

The Cryonics Institute offers whole body cryopreservation
(including vitrification perfusion to prevent ice formation
in the brain) for as little as $28,000. As a matter of
policy, CI does not offer a neurocryopreservation service,
unlike Alcor.

Anyone interested in more than the superficial, dismissive
coverage of cryonics that you present should read the
Wikipedia entry on cryonics, or Google “cryonics faq”
to get answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions
on the subject.

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