[ExI] Nice Article on Brain Preservation

[Giulio Prisco]

I consider chemical brain preservation as "cryonics for uploaders":
http://giulioprisco.blogspot.hu/2010/07/chemical-brain-preservation-cryonics.html
See also: http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-connectome-observatory-for-nanoscale-brain-imaging

Since I am more interested in eventually uploading than in living for
centuries in this aging meatbag with minor reparations, I consider
some future version of chemical brain preservation as my preferred
option. I think Alcor and the Cryonics Institute should start offering
also this option when the time is right, which may be in a few years
after the Brain Preservation Prize award.

I look forward to reading your article!

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
> There is rather a lot of silly stuff being written on this topic. Aschwin de
> Wolf and I are currently writing a detail analysis of plastic or resin
> embedding (plastination is a specific method used by Gunther von Hagens).
> Writers who think this approach is much cheaper have no idea what they are
> talking about. They also don't seem to understand that it gives you fewer
> revival options than does cryopreservation.
>
> We aim to finish our article within a week or so.
>
> --Max
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:38 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > I think this article does a fair job introducing the topic of
>>> plastination of the brain. Nothing negative in it that I can see.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://io9.com/5943304/how-to-preserve-your-brain-by-turning-it-into-plastic
>>
>>
>> That is a interesting article! I note that plastination not cryogenics is
>> the method Eric Drexler recommended in his book Engines of Creation if you
>> don't think you will live long enough to get to the age of Nanotechnology. I
>> would like to hear Max's opinion on this and if Alcor has any plans on
>> offering such a service, because it really would be a shame to belong to the
>> last generation to die.
>>
>>   John K Clark
>>
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