Woody Allen said "*I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment*”, well maybe there is a way. Yesterday the Large Mammal Brain Preservation Prize was awarded to 21st Century Medicine and lead company researcher Robert McIntyre. They used both glutaraldehyde fixation and cryogenic storage, and proved that a pig's brain connectome, that is the 150 trillion synaptic connections that are thought to encode memory and the whole mind, is preserved. And because it is stored at near liquid nitrogen temperatures it could be preserved for centuries. 3D pictures were made by a electron microscope after the brain was rewarmed and they showed amazing preservation, and there is no reason to think molecular-level information wouldn't be preserved too. It's even more impressive when you consider that the pictures were made after rewarming because most of the damage happens at that stage, I would have been delighted even if the pictures were made while the brain was still frozen, but this is even better. Kenneth Hayworth a PhD in Neurosciencesaid:
"Let that sink in… Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation, if properly applied TODAY, could preserve the information content of a human brain for indefinitely-long storage." At this point there is little doubt, Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation works and it does a much better job than the method Alcor currently uses. And at this point no new science is required we just need improved technical procedures to make it practical to use in a hospital setting and the will to do so. There is more about this here https://turingchurch.net/cryonics-for-uploaders-the- brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won-cebbe98c241a And there is a *really* good video about this, it's 24 minutes long but anyone who is seriously interested in immortality needs to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejIKy5R4uGM John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
