The Future of Cryonics

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There are four things that future technology would have to be able to undo or reverse for this process to work really well. It has to help the cause of death, replace your blood with antifreeze and the kind of freezing process. Then there's the aging piece, if the person died really old, you don't want them to just die very shortly after from aging. And then finally, it seems like they have to undo the kind of brain damage or brain death that occurred or restore the neurons or store the cells.

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What is cryonics? And how does it work? What do we know right now about reversing death? And what would we have to learn to make resurrection from a cryogenically frozen state feasible? How much does cryonics cost? What incentives would future people have for reviving a cryo-frozen person? How likely is it that a cryo-frozen person will be brought back in the future? Why do people (even pro-cryonics people) "cryoprastinate" and put off considering cryonics for a later time? What sorts of risks are involved in being frozen and later revived? What philosophical and ethical issues are at stake with cryonics? Would a revived person be able to integrate into a future society? Why is there stigma around cryonics in some cultures?

Max Marty is an entrepreneur and futurist who lived and worked in the Bay Area for 10 years. He's now in Austin and has been working to build the Cryonics community, including co-hosting the Cryonics Underground podcast and running the largest Cryonics discord community: The Cryosphere. He looks forward to getting back into startups in the future, this time in biotech.

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