#+title: Big List of Links for Cryonics

 #+author: Robert McIntyre

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 This is a list of interesting things related to cryonics, prepared

 initially for Nicholas Juntilla's transhuman meetup group.

 

 * Introduction to Cryonics

 

   - [[http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html][Why Cryonics Makes Sense (Wait but Why)]] :: very well-written

        article from the perspective of someone first investigating

        cryonics. 

 

   - [[http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html][The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant]] :: talks about death in the context

        of a dragon that eats everything and seems insurmountable.

 

   - [[http://alcor.org/Library/index.html][Alcor Library]] :: Lots of material to get started on understanding

        cryonics.

 

   - [[http://aurellem.org/papers/html/cryo-em.html][Cryobiology / Electron Microscopy Reading List]] :: A list of papers

        you might be interested in reading.

 

   - [[http://www.brainpreservation.org][Brain Preservation Foundation]] :: Organization dedicated to

        scientifically evaluating brain preservation technology.

 

   - [[http://www.brainpreservation.org/faq/][BPF's FAQ]] :: Very intelligent discussion of Brain Preservation as

        a scientific endeavor.

 

   - [[http://www.brainpreservation.org/content-2/overcoming-objections/][Overcoming Objections to Brain Preservation]] :: In-depth discussion

        of common objections to brain preservation.

 

   - [[http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/micrographs.html][Alcor's electron micrographs]] :: These are electron micrographs of

        rabbit brains which were preserved under ideal clinical

        settings using a protocol very similar to the one Alcor

        uses. Compare to the electron micrographs available at [[http://openconnecto.me/catmaid/][Open

        Connectome]].

 

 * Introduction to Neuroscience / Personal Identity

 

   - [[https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung][Sebastian Seung's TED talk]] :: Sebastian talks about the

        "connectome", the pattern of connections in the brain that

        define an individual's personal identity.

 

   - [[https://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden?language=en][Ed Boyden's TED talk]] :: Ed Boyden, who invented optogenetics,

        talks about controlling neurons with light.

 

   - [[http://cogprints.org/266/1/selfctr.htm][Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity]] :: Some good philosophy by

        Daniel Dennet on how our understanding of "self" might work.

 

   - [[http://connectomethebook.com/][Connectome]] :: A book written by Sebastian the serves as a layman's

        introduction to neuroscience. Reviews the history of

        neuroscience, our models of the brain, and even mentions

        cryonics / brain preservation at the end.

 

   - [[http://connectomes.org/][connectomes.org]] :: Page that talks about mapping the entire

        connectome.

 

   - [[http://openconnecto.me/catmaid/][Open Connectome]] :: Place to see really cool partial connectome

         datasets.

 

   - [[http://www.openworm.org/][Open Worm]] :: Stephen Larson's ambitious project to simulate the

        entire connectome of a whole /C. elegans/.

 

   - [[https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem][Fly EM]] :: Amazing project at the [[https://www.janelia.org/][Janelia Research Campus]] to map

        the entire connectome of /drosophila/.

 

 * [[http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html][Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation]]

 

 * Miscellaneous Links

 

   - [[http://logical.ai/entitle/org/fables.html][The Bright Fables]] :: Whimsical stories about life and death, with

        a life-positive perspective. By Dylan Holmes.

 

   - [[http://logical.ai/songularity/org/playlist.html][Songs for Life]] :: Collection of life-positive songs.

 

   - [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0747199][The Immortalist]] :: BBC documentary about mind-uploading

        research. I'm in it briefly!

 

 

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 	      A brain-banking technology that can preserve all of the

 	      synaptic connections in a whole mammalian brain for

 	      longer than a

 	      century. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">Published

 	      in Cryobiology</a>

 	      and <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">winner</a>

 	      of the

 	       <a href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval">Brain

 	      Preservation Prize</a>. Mentioned in

 	      <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html">the

 	      New York

 	      Times</a>, <a href="http://www.popsci.com/researchers-have-preserved-an-entire-rabbit-brain">Popular

 	      Science</a>,

 	      <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-our-minds-live-forever/">Scientific

 		American</a>,

 	      <a href="http://gizmodo.com/brain-preservation-breakthrough-could-usher-in-a-new-er-1758022181">

 		Gizmodo</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fully-intact-brain-frozen_us_56bb942ae4b0b40245c51654?4tic0udi">

 		the Huffington

 		Post</a>, <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077140-mammal-brain-frozen-and-thawed-out-perfectly-for-first-time/">

 		New Scientist</a>,

 		<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-rabbit-brain-has-been-cryonically-preserved-and-recovered-brain-preservation-prize">

 		Vice News</a>,

 		and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0747199">BBC's

 		Horizon</a>.</br></br>

 

 		

 

 		<a class="list"

 		href="http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html">Introduction

 		to Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC)

 		</a><br>

 

 		<a class="list" href="http://www.brainpreservation.org/small-mammal-announcement">Brain

 		Preservation Prize Announcement </a><br>

 	      <a class="list"

 		href="./ASC/html/ASC-FAQ.html">Frequently asked

 		Questions </a><br>

 

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 	      <a class="list"

 		 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003">

 		Journal article in Cryobiology </a><br>

 

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 	      <!-- 	Motivations behind ASC </a><br> -->

 

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 	      <a class="list" href="http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-full-protocol.html">

 	      	Detailed ASC protocol </a><br>

 

 	      <a class="list" href="https://nectome.com">Nectome, ASC

 	      research company </a><br>

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