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Quantum
Computing: Quantum information is an exciting new
paradigm for information which has enormous potential to
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Nootropic:
a word coined by Dr. Giurgea to describe a new class of drugs that act
as cognitive enhancers with no side effects or toxicity, from Greek words
noos,
meaning mind and tropein meaning toward. Also called "Smart
Drugs".
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The
Philosophy of Mind: Concise and relatively objective definitions
of key terms in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.
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Artificial
Intelligence Resources Artificial
Intelligence or "ALife" is getting so advanced,
our definitions of 'life' will either have to include
various 'virtual organisms' or be re-defined...
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Cryonics
Suspension
Imagine for a moment that cryonics worked perfectly, right now. Imagine
that you could simply turn a person off, like a light switch, and turn
them back on again days or months or years later, perfectly healthy, as
though not a moment had gone by. What would it mean?
There’s only one problem with the way cryonics is presented in science
fiction. Cryonics isn’t fiction. It’s science -- the logical conclusion
to a growing accumulation of hard scientific facts.
Such as?
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The fact that several living creatures have been already frozen to liquid
nitrogen temperature and below, where they exhibited no signs of life and
experienced no signs of decay -- and were then restored to functioning normal
life.
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The fact that human tissues, including brain tissue and sperm and even human
embryos, have also been cooled on literally thousands of occasions to a seemingly
non-living state, and have been again restored to life.
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The fact that scientific procedures for the avoidance of freezing damage
(through a process called vitrification) and for the repair of freezing damage
(through nanotechnological cell repair) have been developed in theory and
are even now being developed in practice.
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The fact that research which could make cryonics a reality is even now being
funded in the millions and (in the case of nanotech) even in the tens of
billions of dollars.
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The fact that increasing numbers of reputable and respected mainstream scientists
have not only flatly stated that cryonics can work, but have even signed
up to receive cryonics services themselves.
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The fact that cryonics organizations like CI not only exist in the real world
today, but have shown themselves able to keep patients safely in cryostasis
for decades.
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