[ExI] cryonics vs. chemopreservation

[Giulio Prisco]

Re "strongly promoting the idea of chemopreservation as a superior
option today" - Max, I don't plan to die today! What Smart, Hayworth
and others say, and I tend to agree, is that after the ongoing
preliminary research is complete, brain preservation could _become_ a
superior option, for the subset of cryonicists who prefer uploading to
biological life (I belong to this subset).
I think once chemopreservation is established as an alternative
option, no matter whether superior or not (depends on the individual
perspective), Alcor and the CI should offer it in parallel with cryo.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
> No one is saying to take it as gospel, but it's a good analysis of the
> issues. Better than anything to date. As I said (here or in another post
> tonight), there will be a follow-up comment from Mike Darwin and response
> from Aschwin. Darwin's criticisms, if correct, only reinforce the core
> message that chemopreservation is not currently a superior or even viable
> alternative to cryopreservation.
>
> Eugen: The comments I've seen from you seemed to suggest general agreement
> with Aschwin's piece. Is that not the case, or are you simply dubious about
> certain specifics?
>
> What bothers me is that some people (notably John Smart) are going about
> strongly promoting the idea of chemopreservation as a superior option today,
> when the best evidence says that is not the case.
>
> --Max
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 02:09:45PM -0500, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:43 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > At any rate I'd still like to know what Alcor's official position on
>> > > chemopreservation is.
>> >
>> > ### You might want to read Aschwin de Wolf's article on this:
>> >
>> > http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/chemopreservation.html
>>
>> I wouldn't take that article as gospel yet.
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