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Cryonics is the high-fidelity preservation of the human body, and particularly the brain, after what we would call death, in anticipation of possible future revival.
More Futurism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Cryonics is an important transhumanist technology not only because it is already available today, but because the technology is relatively mature ...
More Futurism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Lifeboat Foundation claims Cryonics is the high-fidelity preservation of the human body, and particularly the brain, after what we would call death, in anticipation of possible future revival.
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Cryonics is an important transhumanist technology not only because it is ...
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Mr. Ettinger went on to found the nonprofit Cryonics Institute where the first client to be preserved was his mother.
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Cryonics can seem pretty sensible, if you want to be immortal – though I don't think I do.
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In 1976, Mr. Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute in a Detroit suburb, where he eventually stored more than 100 bodies in giant vats of liquid nitrogen, at 320 degrees below zero.
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Cryonics is the process of freezing – or suspending – a body in liquid nitrogen at around –130C immediately after death.
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Cryonics societies sprang up in New York and California.
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Unlike other cryonic organizations, Mr. Ettinger's Cryonics Institute freezes only entire bodies, not just heads as some organizations do, at reduced cost.
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