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While standard cryonics vitrifies people in liquid nitrogen, trying to provide
high
quality preservation, this is not affordable to most people. Nevertheless, we
have
examples of mammoth brains preserved quite well for
tens of thousands of years, just by being under a few tens of degrees below
zero.
This suggests that probably we don't need super-low temperature to
preserve
basic structures, just low enough to have brain in the solid form, as solids
generally don't change that much over time, and with high enough
technology (with AI that can solve jigsaw puzzles from crystal orientations,
that
will not be very complex), it would be possible to scan the information off of
them after many decades
to
come.
Decent cryoprotectants like Erythrol being widely available in supermarkets. To protect from oxidation, vacuum bags may be
important to use, and also widely available.
Instead of burying, people already can afford to have the brains of their
loved ones cryopreserved in consumer-grade freezers. It may even be a
cheaper option than burying.
Wikipedia - Yuka (Mammoth)
https://en.wikipedi...wiki/Yuka_(mammoth)
Died: 39,000 years ago Siberia. Brain well-preserved. [Mindey, Mar 13 2020]
LiveScience - Mammoth Mummy Yields Well-Preserved Brain
https://www.livesci...brain-revealed.html
"Moreover, the investigators even found traces of nervous tissue — the main component of the nervous system, responsible for reacting to stimuli and communicating impulses to different parts of the body — while examining the brain." [Mindey, Mar 13 2020]
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This would allow politicians and journalists to be preserved in large numbers for centuries. Then when science advances they can be thawed out and used to answer the question "How could they be so stupid ?" |
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Start rounding them up... |
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Thinking, of writing on the body something along the lines: |
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If I die, put my head in a home freezer,
if nothing better is available in time, because:
Mammoths brains turned out well preserved
under similar temperature, for 39,000 years.
Disregard cultural norms. Give me a chance. |
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// This would allow politicians and journalists to be preserved in large
numbers for centuries. // |
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How so ? Just wait until it becomes legal to hunt them, then thaw them out as needed. |
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// This would allow politicians and journalists to be preserved in large
numbers for centuries. |
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//// That could be a problem. |
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While they may be in ice, what politicians represent, is aggregates of
interests, that, may still persist, even after a few decades.
Who knows what their financial accounts will have been doing during
those years. And, when would their immunities expire? |
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They're legally dead, so their accounts pass to their heirs and successors. As to interest groups, they become irrelevant after a century or so. Their immunities expire when they're thawed out, reanmated, and pushed out into the wilderness to take their chances. |
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// I think of it more as "when." // |
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That bespeaks a depressing lack of ambition on your part. |
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Although the evolution of life has taught to strive for survival, I once had though of a goal, which, when
achieved,
would make me peaceful in my mind. That ultimate goal, is the perfect model of the world, when the data
generated by the model coincides exactly with the data generated by the world - when I see no
differences
between the model and reality, and the world just disappears to me subjectively, and that's the way, I
would ideally
prefer to 'die' - by truly understanding everything, and making nothing left to know. |
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UNTIL THEN, PLEASE, DO RESUSCITATE ME, CARE NOT THE PAIN, THE CURIOSITY IS
GREATER. |
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