I have been following you Max for decades starting with my attending a couple of conferences with you in your early Extropian days. Alas, I also get a sense of the lack of significant progress in life extension and have a myriad of questions as to my next step.
For me, I have been signed up for years at Alcor. A neural signee through life insurance that, unfortunately at my age( currently 76) is about to expire as it was a so-called universal policy that was to last a lifetime. It didn’t!!
I may have the necessary funds for a neural currently unless Alcor raises prices. I would love to have a network of Cryonicists to discuss my myriad of questions: unfortunately that is not currently a reality.
I appreciate you Max in keeping me informed. Good luck with your efforts. Over the last few decades I have had to talk to you, Aubrey, Fahy, Chalmers and even Kurzweil among many others. All with their own efforts which I hope are
fruitful some day but now seem perhaps too optimistic.
I wish we had a group to chat with occasionally. I feel the isolation in Cryonics and wish we had better networking and thoughtful discussions as we are a very infinite minority group.
Bottom line: keep up your good work. mikep3333@gmail in case anyone reading this would be interesting in developing a support group. That would be very helpful along with your plan A Max.
What I value about this essay blog by Max is that it gives credit to the varied theories that often overlap and borrow from each other in building new approaches. This is a good thing! In my field of applied (engineered) design, science (social and biological sciences), and future studies (strategic analyses and the philosophy of systems thinking), I am careful to build on the work done by others as a methodology for innovating new approaches. This does not mean that they are entirely new but that they can be approached and applied in different ways. The doctoral thesis is titled "Life Expansion" and it embraces both the biological theories of aging and the technologies that can engineer biology to function with far more sustainability and functionality for the human in concert with biological systems as biocompatible add-ons or augmentations to cellular structures, molecular data, chemical exchanges, message delivery, and beyond these systems toward the potential of semi-biological and non-biological vehicles for people through prosthetics and nano-engineered AI and robotics. After all, we can expand life into space, virtual environments, and environments yet to be experienced or even conceived of. And why new types of "bodies" might we want or need to survive and evolve? So, why stop with biology?
Absolutely BRILLIANT summation of the good reasons life-extensionists MUST consider Cryonics "PLAN A" along with whatever interventions we engage in to secure our lives! Bravo to Max More for documenting the unintended arrogance of earlier thought leaders, as they confidently predicted the "death of death" complete with timelines we now KNOW are not congruent with reality.
The most striking thing about the article is realizing that many of these brilliant researchers are now permanently, irretrievably DEAD. Holy Crap! These folks were smarter than most of hope to be, and they got the most important decision of their life dead WRONG. Stop Cryocrastinating, get serious about your Cryo plan today, not tomorrow. I have admired Max More's writings for decades, and I think this article is among his best.
I have been following you Max for decades starting with my attending a couple of conferences with you in your early Extropian days. Alas, I also get a sense of the lack of significant progress in life extension and have a myriad of questions as to my next step.
For me, I have been signed up for years at Alcor. A neural signee through life insurance that, unfortunately at my age( currently 76) is about to expire as it was a so-called universal policy that was to last a lifetime. It didn’t!!
I may have the necessary funds for a neural currently unless Alcor raises prices. I would love to have a network of Cryonicists to discuss my myriad of questions: unfortunately that is not currently a reality.
I appreciate you Max in keeping me informed. Good luck with your efforts. Over the last few decades I have had to talk to you, Aubrey, Fahy, Chalmers and even Kurzweil among many others. All with their own efforts which I hope are
fruitful some day but now seem perhaps too optimistic.
I wish we had a group to chat with occasionally. I feel the isolation in Cryonics and wish we had better networking and thoughtful discussions as we are a very infinite minority group.
Bottom line: keep up your good work. mikep3333@gmail in case anyone reading this would be interesting in developing a support group. That would be very helpful along with your plan A Max.
What I value about this essay blog by Max is that it gives credit to the varied theories that often overlap and borrow from each other in building new approaches. This is a good thing! In my field of applied (engineered) design, science (social and biological sciences), and future studies (strategic analyses and the philosophy of systems thinking), I am careful to build on the work done by others as a methodology for innovating new approaches. This does not mean that they are entirely new but that they can be approached and applied in different ways. The doctoral thesis is titled "Life Expansion" and it embraces both the biological theories of aging and the technologies that can engineer biology to function with far more sustainability and functionality for the human in concert with biological systems as biocompatible add-ons or augmentations to cellular structures, molecular data, chemical exchanges, message delivery, and beyond these systems toward the potential of semi-biological and non-biological vehicles for people through prosthetics and nano-engineered AI and robotics. After all, we can expand life into space, virtual environments, and environments yet to be experienced or even conceived of. And why new types of "bodies" might we want or need to survive and evolve? So, why stop with biology?
Absolutely BRILLIANT summation of the good reasons life-extensionists MUST consider Cryonics "PLAN A" along with whatever interventions we engage in to secure our lives! Bravo to Max More for documenting the unintended arrogance of earlier thought leaders, as they confidently predicted the "death of death" complete with timelines we now KNOW are not congruent with reality.
The most striking thing about the article is realizing that many of these brilliant researchers are now permanently, irretrievably DEAD. Holy Crap! These folks were smarter than most of hope to be, and they got the most important decision of their life dead WRONG. Stop Cryocrastinating, get serious about your Cryo plan today, not tomorrow. I have admired Max More's writings for decades, and I think this article is among his best.
Brilliant piece!