Sentences with word «cryonics»

The potential prospects include superintelligent machines, nonaging bodies, direct connections between human brains or between brain and computer, fully realistic virtual reality, and the reanimation of patients in cryonic suspension.

Considering the high cost of cryonics at the moment, over $ 20000, it is solely a method of preservation for a fraction of the current population to be restored in the future.

Players assume the role of an astronaut that has awoken from cryonic sleep, and is now located in a far away, and unfamiliar, portion of outer space.

Could the right to die debate one day be sidetracked by cryonic preservation arguments?

If the writer happens to be more conventionally inclined — like myself, for instance — he may more frequently choose to rely instead on such prospects as cryonic suspension or time dilation at relativistic speeds to get his people across interstellar distances within the bounds of a mortal lifetime.

In the case of author Bruce Spitzer, a background in advertising led him to design the jacket to his debut novel Extra Innings, a sci - fi baseball thriller about Red Sox legend Ted Williams, who is brought back to life with cryonics in the year 2092.

The homepage of its website attributes a false cryonics quote to Hal Finney.

attributes a false cryonics quote to Hal Finney.

The dark comedy, set in the 1960's, tells the true story of a television repairman who who joined a group of enthusiasts who believed they could cheat death with a new technology called cryonics.

The fact that a wood frog can nearly come back from the dead has also fanned the futuristic fantasies peddled by commercial cryonics labs, where human corpses are kept on ice in the vain hope that medical science might one day restore them to life.

Scientists preserved a rabbit brain without damage using a new cryonics method called the aldehyde - stabilized cryopreservation or ASC.

Let's take a quick look at the emerging science of connectomics, the dense mapping of brain neurons, and how it's leading to better cryonics.

Therefore, cryonics alone does not extend life.

Lauded documentary filmmaker Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) makes the jump to narrative films with this darkly comedic adaptation of We Froze The First Man, the memoir by TV - repairman turned cryonics pioneer Bob Nelson.

Themes and motifs from earlier films co-written by writer - director Mateo Gil («The Sea Inside» and «Open Your Eyes») show up in this movie, including the body - mind - connection and the role technology — particularly cryonics — plays.

Chief enters cryonic sleep as the destroyed ship drifts away in space.

Since cryonics are not a branch of science we've been able to master yet, at some point, the world this game takes place in had technology slightly (or vastly) better than what we're familiar with.

Also titled The Prospect of Immortality, it documents the small but dedicated international cryonics community from the English seaside retirement town of Peacehaven; through to the high - tech laboratories of Arizona; to the rudimentary facilities of KrioRus, on the outskirts of Moscow.

Worldwide there are approximately 200 patients stored permanently in liquid nitrogen, with a further two thousand people signed up for cryonics after death.

This new body of work explores ideas surrounding transhumanism and cryonics through 3D modeled and hydroprinted sculptures, photographs from a subterranean bunker home in Las Vegas, and animations on deconstructed display monitors.

For anyone intrigued, check out this page from Alcor on cryonic procedures.

There I was, quietly chuckling over Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson's back and forth (and forth) on the reasonableness of cryonics, when somebody decided to bring Derek Parfit into things.

In cryonics, the brain is considered the most vital organ, and the idea is that the rest of the body can be regenerated using stem cells.

One of the co-founders, Robert McIntyre, developed a new method for embalming with cryonics.

Again, consider the implications of cryonics.

They hold out the hope that such techniques can be used to design a whole society that will be happy, productive, peaceful, and secure.10 Most far out of all are those who propose technologies that affect the human organism itself in a direct way: cloning (a process to reproduce genetically identical copies of a person), cryonics (freezing bodies at death for later revival when science has advanced sufficiently), and eugenics (designing genetically a superior organism).

The surveys didn't ask, but I strongly suspect a lot of these nonbelievers adopt either New Age notions of the continuation of consciousness without brains via some kind of «morphic resonance» or quantum field (or some such) or are holding out hope that science will soon master cloning, cryonics, mind uploading or the transhumanist ability to morph us into cyber-human hybrids.

He's also a cryonics enthusiast, he said, «because in the event I die before immortality is achieved, cryopreservation offers me the opportunity to be transported into the future where revival may be possible.»

I am rather puzzled over this business of cryonics (2 July, p 26).

In addition, cryonics is reliant upon progress in medicine to alleviate the problems of the patient.

But it states that cryonics can work because of three things:

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Having been awoken from his cryonic sleep by Cortana, Master Chief doesn't have much time to acclimatise to his situation.

In 1962, Robert Ettinger published The Prospect of Immortality, a book that gave birth to the idea of «cryonics» — the process of freezing a human body after death in the hope that scientific advances might one day restore life.

Recently Meerdo has been working in collaboration with scientists in the cryonics field in order to inform his interest in immortality, transhumanism, and consciousness.