Medical Time Travel as a Bridge to Negligible Senescence
Jerry B. Lemler
CEO / Medical Director, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, 7895 E. Acoma Drive, #110, Scottsdale, AZ, 85260, USA
If one accepts the feasibility of engineering negligible senescence,
the benefits of the endeavor depend on when it succeeds. Many of those
who would like to benefit from engineered negligible senescence will
likely perish before it can be accomplished. There is, however, a
potential "safety net" for such individuals, which can be called
medical time travel. It is based on one fact and two assumptions. The
fact is that at the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, changes in
biological systems are generally agreed to be negligible for periods of
hundreds to thousands of years. The first assumption is that it is
possible to cool a human being to such a temperature without
fundamentally destroying the essential information in the brain. The
second assumption is that medical and scientific progress will continue
until medical resuscitation technology is limited only by physical
law. If these assumptions are correct, the memories and personalities
of people preserved by today's methods should be intact after revival
by future technology, and medical time travel can be used as a bridge
to a time in which senescence can be controlled. Based on presently
available information, the evidence in support of both assumptions of
this proposal appears to be strong.
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