Stimulating monkey brains
At Overcoming Bias Patri Friedman observes: In the ancestral environment, pulling together to help the tribe in a time of crisis was the best way for an individual to survive. In our modern environment, however, we are often led to identify with an entire nation as our “tribe”, and it turns out that this is [...]
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste
On the Cato@Liberty blog David Boaz observes how opinion makers and politicians prepare to exploit the current financial crisis to implement regulatory policies and entitlements programs that would not get broad support in calmer times: So . . . Emanuel. Krugman. Huffington. They’re all rallying around the theme that, well, that a left-liberal government should [...]
Depressed Metabolism- Buddhism and the scientific worldview
- Ken Hayworth on straight freezing in cryonics
- The low-hanging fruit of technological progress
- Free will versus determinism as it relates to cryonics
- How many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work?
- Chemical preservation and cryonics research
- The presumption of death
- Cryonics and fear of the future
- Hard determinism and the problem of evil
- Ocean power: a new era in energy