tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344314642009-07-18T14:13:39.242+12:00By Arcturus GregoryArcturus3http://www.blogger.com/profile/12803658521463917526noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34431464.post-2169538672666179182009-07-18T14:13:00.001+12:002009-07-18T14:13:39.334+12:00

Someone once tried to console me after the death of someone I loved, "There is a better place." And I told him, "Yes, it's called the future, and we must get there any way we can." Many people think there is a heaven somewhere out there. They look up - maybe up there? Heaven is an old word for sky. And yet we know much more about what is in that sky than our ancient ancestors. Our ancestors had

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach famously suggested that God was made in the image of man. More specifically, he recognized that the infinity projected on the idea of God by human beings is the infinite capacy of human nature itself.So it would be better to say that God is not made in the image of man, but rather, in the image of what human beings should aspire to become. Because, in the past, human

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"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth . . . There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." - The Book of Revelation   The vision of a new earth is one that should embolden us. We can believe in the better world to come -- not a world falling down out of the sky, from someone else, as in the Book of Revelation, but a world that we, who

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Yesterday I had the great opportunity to meet with other "cryonauts" in Brevard County as the groundwork was put down for a local first response team there.   Thanks to Loraine Rhodes and the Terasem Movement, Rudi Hoffman, and Catherine Baldwin and Suspended Animation, and others!   Terasem provided the lovely location for the meeting, and this was my first opportunity to learn more about the

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The February 19 issue of Rolling Stone contains an interview with Ray Kurzweil in which he explains his belief that his deceased father can be resurrected by future technology (his father was not cryopreserved).   He also mentions that he is storing his father's mementos, in preparation for that resurrection, similar to what I am doing now myself, and for the same reason.    

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[Spoiler Alert]   I watched the movie "Eagle Eye" expecting just an action/suspense movie but was pleased to find it had a science-fiction theme.   The plot device in this case is a rogue Defense Department AI called "ARIA" which is hooked into networked electronic devices of all kinds, satellites, surveillance cameras, cell phones, etc., and which is able to monitor and control these devices in

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On January 2, I lost my father to the complications of a very severe stroke he had last May.   I would have liked to have preserved his body (which I believe contained his "soul") for near-future resuscitation, but he was destroyed by the wishes of his next of kin. But in accordance with my belief in Universal Immortalism, I am still not without hope. Although my father was not placed into

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Overturning my previous judgment, I am returning to a (hopefully) regular blog post to make observations that I will not be able to make anywhere else.

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However painful to watch, this is a must see video.Someday, humans will rise to empathy for other animals and stop the endless cruelty. Someday we will look back upon this period of human history like the days of cannibalism and headhunting.

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SundayFirst up was a panel discussion and question-and-answer on cryonics and critical care with David Crippen, M.D., a prominent critical care physician, Leslie Whetstine, Ph.D., a bioethicist, and Tanya Jones, of Alcor, moderated by Alcor's Aschwin de Wolf.The first two panelists did not seem much familiar with cryonics, and they and the audience had some heated discussion, but out of it all

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Another wonderful Alcor conference!! Congratulations and thanks to all the organizers, speakers, and panelists. It was great meeting life extensionists and cryonicists from all over the world.FridayArizona lobbyist Barry Aarons gave the welcome address. It is good to see Alcor's continuing political engagement, which Alcor needs to survive. But this time, there was a hint of something more than

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Well, that was a bit premature of me. I haven't had time to continue the line of thinking from my previous post.But I can at least point out the obvious.As you can see from the graph in the previous post, the final appearance is not so very different from the initial appearance. Even after 48 hours, the neural membranes, while indistinct, still seem to be intact. The nucleus and nucleolus may be

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For many unfortunate people (more all the time), death begins long before the heart stops beating and the lungs stop breathing. The unique personal identity is eroded by loss of memory and disordering of personality from aging, injury, or some other cause or condition.But for those who manage to make it intact to prolonged cardiac arrest and cessation of breathing, how long does the brain last?

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I want to have the same last dream again,The one where I wake up and I'm alive —Just as the four walls close me within,My eyes are opened up with pure sunlight.I'm the first to know. My dearest friends,Even if your hope has burned with time Anything that is dead shall be re-grown,And your vicious pain — your warning sign.You will be fine.Any type of love, it will be shown,Like every single

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As you might have noticed from my profile avatar, I started this blog with quite a bit of optimism about the online virtual world, Second Life.In the last few months, though, my enthusiasm has waned considerably. I have decided to try to put down into words the reasons why I am rarely in Second Life anymore, and why I don't expect to be there very frequently anymore in the future.For one thing, I

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Estimated total cost of a space elevator: $40 billion Estimated total cost to date of U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq: $400+ billion I have long been impressed by the notion of using a space elevator to ferry solar power to the Earth. Barring the invention of better energy sources, Sol, our local star, will continue to be the biggest source of energy in our vicinity. The trouble is tapping

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Once again, opportunities for federally-funded research with new human embryonic stem cell lines has been thwarted in the United States by one man and a likely 1/3+ of the U.S. Congress. Once again they have acted on their belief that it is more important to keep eight-celled cultures in medium, or simply destroy them, than to conduct research that might improve the lives, or even save the lives,

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Notes Part 4 of 4I can only vaguely reconstruct the great announcement at the end of Saturday’s banquet. I wasn’t taking notes, the announcement was very detailed, and I was beginning to suffer just a little fatigue from the day’s activities. So a caveat about everything I say about it.An anonymous donor has funded a multimillion-dollar grant proposal by Greg Fahy to work toward successful

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Notes Part 3 of 4Note: These are just my summaries from my notes. As a layperson with bad handwriting and poor memory, I am sure I will have introduced errors that are not to be attributed to the speakers! Blame me not them if something is wrong or doesn’t make sense…Rudi Hoffman kicked off a new sort of panel, one focused on the financial implications of cryonics. Rudi is the most prominent life

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Notes Part 2 of 4Note: These are just my summaries from my notes. As a layperson with bad handwriting and poor memory, I am sure I will have introduced errors that are not to be attributed to the speakers! Blame me not them if something is wrong or doesn’t make sense…Brian Wowk, Ph.D., brought up the subject of intermediate temperature storage (ITS). Yes, brains fracture at liquid nitrogen

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The conference was a wonderful opportunity to meet people involved in life extension and hear about the latest research. It truly is amazing, the dedication and persistence of people like Saul Kent, who has been involved since the 1960s I believe and who has contributed so much money to the effort, and people like Greg Fahy, who has been working on organ models of vitrification for over three

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I'll be at the Suspended Animation conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this weekend. I will post my impressions here. Eagerly looking forward to all the new information on new methods and approaches to cryopreservation, vitrification, and wealth preservation for the cryopreserved.The end of death is drawing nigh. How sad it is that so few people realize their deliverance is close at hand.

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