Joining in today's episode is Dennis Kowalski, president of the Cryonics Institute to talk about cryogenics, and the process of cryonics, along with the glowing future of humankind with Jason Hartman.

Key Takeaways

01:09 – Cryonics has people in state of preservation that can last for decades, or even centuries until future medical technology can revive them.

03:38 – Vitrification is much like molasses on a cold day, it locks structures into place and helps preserved patients bodies.

05:25 –  Much like in the past, legally dead might not be consider legally dead in the future. And the process of preserving patients.

09:47 –  In an unlikely case that cryostats have a leak, the head will be last to dethaw. While body repair can be possible from even one cell. Personality repair without the brain is not.

11:56 –  Cryonics can wait a long time for technology advances to bring people back, but people like Ray Kurzweil believes the technology is moving quickly enough that what will happen in hundred years might actually be in twenty years.   

17:06 –  Nobody has ever showed that the laws of physics makes cryonics impossible, and if you pay close attention, there are verifications of cryonics concepts.

20:20 – www.cryonics.org/ has phone numbers and a lot more information. 

21:00 –  There will always be people arguing over new sciences, but as more people benefit from those sciences and it becomes common acceptable practice; they'll be a lot less.

23:10 –  Most likely because of Dolly the sheep, one does not hear too much on human cloning or cloning in general.

25:20 –Cryonics Institute member has been funding money for people to look for ways to freeze complex organs like kidneys in liquid nitrogen temperatures in-order for better transplant purposes.

Mentioned in this episode

The Law of Accelerating Returnsby Ray Kurzwei

Dolly the sheep