Comment 'Plausible predictions' or 'crackpot claims' (Score 1) 1046
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.
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/AnnB ibDMS.htm
http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/Chal lenges.htm
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. ;)
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?
