Which relevant claims, specifically, do you take issue with?
The two human cryopreservation non-profits in the US claim only that their vitrification techniques and cryo-storage significantly preserve a patient's brain structure in the long-term. They point to plausible (not impossible under known physics & info theory) fields of future tech/medicine that might be used to repair or read & emulate that brain. I don't think anyone is claiming that it's not a long shot. The confidence levels on any probability of eventual recovery must be low, but non-zero. It's simply the only currently scientifically plausible non-zero chance for a person to live again after legal death.
Do you think a functional description of brain/mind/consciousness is likely possible, for instance, or do you think there's some unknowable hocus beyond that.
Futurist thinking isn't entirely the realm of crackpot; it just attracts them. How far out can you imagine? The next version of Java, ubiquitous wireless, head-mounted displays and power-gloves?:) Transhumanism/exptropianism, as I see it, is a catch phrase for people want "better living through science and technology". Critical thinking is still BYOB(rain), of course.;)
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Which relevant claims, specifically, do you take issue with?
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:) Transhumanism/exptropianism, as I see it, is a catch phrase for people want "better living through science and technology". Critical thinking is still BYOB(rain), of course. ;)
The two human cryopreservation non-profits in the US claim only that their vitrification techniques and cryo-storage significantly preserve a patient's brain structure in the long-term. They point to plausible (not impossible under known physics & info theory) fields of future tech/medicine that might be used to repair or read & emulate that brain. I don't think anyone is claiming that it's not a long shot. The confidence levels on any probability of eventual recovery must be low, but non-zero. It's simply the only currently scientifically plausible non-zero chance for a person to live again after legal death.
Do you think a functional description of brain/mind/consciousness is likely possible, for instance, or do you think there's some unknowable hocus beyond that.
Regarding MNT, here's a bibliography of cites to physical chemistry experiments, etc., followed by a link to further challenges.
http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/Ann
http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/Cha
Futurist thinking isn't entirely the realm of crackpot; it just attracts them. How far out can you imagine? The next version of Java, ubiquitous wireless, head-mounted displays and power-gloves?
A distinction can be made between protoscience and pseudoscience. Cryonics: http://www.alcor.org/AboutCryonics/index.html
Extropianism: http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/faq.html
MNT: http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm
Make up your own minds.
Those bastards'll need to dump waste heat at some point. Can't hide that forever!
I'm surprised that no one mentioned the Space Pier as a more feasible alternative.m l
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