"The combination of COVID lockdowns and my partner studying for her medical exams led to a very studious environment. I’m not sure I’ll ever be as productive as that time again." For a couple of months there, the initial Covid era was highly productive for me as well. For me there was also a component of "well there's next to nothing I can do about Covid, but perhaps brain preservation research will still be useful for me and others one day."
Excellent essay, Ariel. In my own book-in-progress, I recently finished writing about the factors behind acceptance of death. I'll have to go back and add the reference you provided showing that 70% of people suffering pain and close to dying STILL want to live longer. The gap between philosophical statements favoring death and actual behavior when confronting death is vast.
Thanks for starting this newsletter, I appreciate this work. If nothing else, it shows how boundless the human horizons could be. I think we need some utopian vision, especially in a time when most people think the future looks bleak. But utopian dreaming has been taken over by futurism and drained of the social and human content it used to have, and turned it into a purely technical problem to solve. We have to consciously work to reverse that. Most people would associate this kind of research with the out of touch billionaires who invest in immortality schemes while billions are held in poverty. So I think if we have the audacity to imagine overcoming death, we should really think about how to connect that to a vision of a more humane society, and that would enrich this vision enormously. Just my two cents. Good luck with this blog journey!
Could we use something less toxic than Aldehydes. Maybe a mixture of protein aptamers targeted to benign binding sites on all key macromolecules which are able to participate in the formation of supramolecular gels?
Excited you are starting a blog!
"The combination of COVID lockdowns and my partner studying for her medical exams led to a very studious environment. I’m not sure I’ll ever be as productive as that time again." For a couple of months there, the initial Covid era was highly productive for me as well. For me there was also a component of "well there's next to nothing I can do about Covid, but perhaps brain preservation research will still be useful for me and others one day."
Excellent essay, Ariel. In my own book-in-progress, I recently finished writing about the factors behind acceptance of death. I'll have to go back and add the reference you provided showing that 70% of people suffering pain and close to dying STILL want to live longer. The gap between philosophical statements favoring death and actual behavior when confronting death is vast.
Thanks for starting this newsletter, I appreciate this work. If nothing else, it shows how boundless the human horizons could be. I think we need some utopian vision, especially in a time when most people think the future looks bleak. But utopian dreaming has been taken over by futurism and drained of the social and human content it used to have, and turned it into a purely technical problem to solve. We have to consciously work to reverse that. Most people would associate this kind of research with the out of touch billionaires who invest in immortality schemes while billions are held in poverty. So I think if we have the audacity to imagine overcoming death, we should really think about how to connect that to a vision of a more humane society, and that would enrich this vision enormously. Just my two cents. Good luck with this blog journey!
We need some solid clinical standards in this endeavour
Could we use something less toxic than Aldehydes. Maybe a mixture of protein aptamers targeted to benign binding sites on all key macromolecules which are able to participate in the formation of supramolecular gels?