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The Multi-Headed Hydra

This article explores some of the regulatory challenges facing those who would bring rejuvenation biotechnologies, like those pursued by Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh16 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

How Uniform Are The Uniform Anatomical Gift Acts?

“SECTION 11. PERSONS THAT MAY RECEIVE ANATOMICAL GIFT; PURPOSE OF ANATOMICAL GIFT” Thus begins a very important section of a very important piece of legislation.

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh11 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Who speaks for the dead?

Do the dead have rights, in the proper sense of the word? That is to say, when someone is obligated to do something with a dead person, like

January 6, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh8 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Beyond Skull and Skin: Concepts of Identity and the Growth of Cryonics

Introduction “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” So begins a 1998 paper by Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers

June 1, 2015June 11, 2024 by Aschwin de Wolf17 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Cryonics as a measure of rationality?

Most cryonics advocates are often frustrated by the amount irrationality, ignorance, and hostility when other people encounter the idea of human cryopreservation. It should not

May 6, 2015February 19, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf5 Min Reading
Health, Neuroscience, Society

Though She Isn’t Really Ill, There’s a Little Yellow Pill…

Humans have been ingesting mindand mood-altering substances for millennia, but it has only rather recently become possible to begin to elucidate drug mechanisms of action

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 by Chana Phaedra12 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Alcor vs Disintegration

This article was previously published in Cryonics Magazine, May, 2013 In this short article I will discuss two distinct developments in contemporary cryonics that are setting the

January 20, 2015January 20, 2015 by Aschwin de Wolf4 Min Reading
Cryonics, Death, Society

Cryonics and Natural Selection

“…it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the

January 20, 2015February 13, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf4 Min Reading
Health, Society

Social Benefits of Rejuvenation Bioechnologies

When advocates of radical life extension discuss the social benefits of humans having much longer lifespans, it is often just a footnote to a personal desire to prolong life.

September 8, 2014February 12, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf3 Min Reading
Cryonics, Neuroscience, Science, Society

Interview with Aschwin de Wolf

[This interview was originally published in Cryonics magazine September 2013] By Stephen Cave This magazine generously reviewed my book Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and

November 26, 2013November 26, 2015 by Aschwin de Wolf11 Min Reading
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