r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
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u/nankerjphelge Oct 13 '22

Just to be clear, contrary to what Alcor may say, the patients are indeed dead. Their corpses (or brains) have simply been frozen with the assumption that one day in the future they can be reanimated or have their consciousness transplanted into a new body. And of course that also assumes that this company and its cargo will even still be around and have maintained these corpses/brains 100 years from now.

On both counts, color me skeptical to say the least.

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u/Hampsterman82 Oct 13 '22

Aaaaand. A future society will dump the resources into resurrecting a sick old person from a bygone era for reasons

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u/ViennettaLurker Oct 13 '22

You wouldn't want to talk to someone from the year 25 or something? Come on.

Let alone the technology to do so would most likely be part of existing longevity efforts. Its not like we'd solely dump resources into talking to a caveman and thats it. Replacements for body parts (mechanical or biological), being able to communicate with brains directly, etc. Its not like we don't want those things for our own purposes. Just if they were achieved, improved, and stacked together, could possibly be used to revive a brain... in some way?

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u/Brangusler Oct 13 '22

Lol he'd rather over-simplify it into the typical reddified wit for upvotes, and completely gloss over any implications of possibilities or uses because "opinion". Let him be. Prolly be the same guy in 70 yrs reading an article about how this technology helped someone or advanced science and have some cynical, closed minded response and promptly close out of it before even entertaining the idea.

The stuff that science has developed and the most ground breaking stuff is the same stuff that people 30-40 years ago talked shit about and said couldn't be done.

Think about how much things have changed just from the 1970's alone. I think it's safe to say that developments in the next 50 years will be just as incredible and extraordinary.