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Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

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Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

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post #4

Final(?) resting place of FM-2030 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

Heh what a curious person. Can't help but think his desire to leave behind collective identities has been crushed recently. All we seem to do these days is reinforce collective identities and vie to join and exclude particular groups and people.

Consider a few things. Acting a collective fashion is extremely powerful. It could be eminently rational to sacrifice a few incidental personal goals in order to join a collective which can achieve some of your larger ones. Another thing to consider: I think, in general, the arrow is moving away from monolithic collectives and towards smaller, overlapping, more individualistic, identities because of the internet. This has had a lot of effects on society, one of which is to make smaller collectives seem louder and more powerful. Before, culture was so monolithic that alternative views had to be pretty widely shared or violently asserted to make a splash.

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

#12
post #10

Until it runs out of money, that is. Reanimation is nowhere near viable but this facility will have to do something to keep those bodies frozen...or else.

Just wait till the janitor switches off the power switch. /s

Read up on it and this or basically this has already happened a bunch of times.

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

#13
post #4

Final(?) resting place of FM-2030 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

Heh what a curious person. Can't help but think his desire to leave behind collective identities has been crushed recently. All we seem to do these days is reinforce collective identities and vie to join and exclude particular groups and people.

I suppose as an individual there aren't very many of you.

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

#16

Imagine going through all the trouble to get yourself frozen, only to wake up 200 years later in some post-apocalyptic cannibal's stew pot. Boy would that be embarrassing.

And then you go all mad max beyond thunder done, finally reaching California and then realizing it was just a local apocalypse. Everyone else made it to utopia.

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

#19
post #14

I'm afraid they would just end up something like this: https://qntm.org/lena

JFC that was horrifying

"I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too... Let's commit to losing me."

~ Lena Forsén

Re: Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

#20
post #8

Is reanimating these bodies even viable? What kind of energy waste are we talking about for this fools errand?

As far as I know you need to be dead already to be put in these facilities. So to get them back, we'd have to find a way to resuscitate them after "defrosting". The point of these facilities is exactly to wait for the technology to get them back to life. One more interesting variation, while illegal, would be to freeze people when they are nearing death. If we could bring them back later, the scheme would have a chan…

Before you even get to resuscitation, you would have to repair all of the fractured organs caused by thawing.

https://www.alcor.org/library/postmortem-examination-of-thre...

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