Monism is the idea that personality and memory are embedded in preservable brain structure. (Ettinger, Prospect of Immortality 1962)(Drexler, Engines of Creation 1984). The problem I see here is that the intro to their conversation in Biostasis assumes monism whereas the issue of monism vs. dualism has been important since the dawn of the discussion of conciousness being primary rather than emergent, starting some 20 years ago in ernest.
Fahy and More continue to ignore quantum reality in my opinion from what I see right now. Mike Perry wrestled with it but then surmised that quantum reality exists but it's still 100% deterministic to the extent that everyone can be reverse-resurrected (Forever for All, Mike Perry,1991). That's not the kind of immortality for a person that quantum-reality makes possible however since it's merely a reconstruction based on classical physics, not an adoption of quantum physics.
I reject Mike Perry's (Fayadorov's) view in favor of "real" quantum physics implications for immortality along the lines of Donald Hoffman which is consistent with Wilder Penfield's work, Harold S Burr and Edward W. Russel, found elsewhere in this blog/forum.
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Dr. Fahy is the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at 21st Century Medicine, Inc, and has co-founded Intervene Immune, a company developing clinical methods to reverse immune system aging. He was the 2022–2023 president of the Society for Cryobiology. Dr. Fahy is the lead author of a recent paper, “Ultrastructural and Histological Cryopreservation of Mammalian Brains by Vitrification” – the main topic of our conversation.
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rick says- Fahy's work on the immune system should be interesting to drill down on considering the covid hoax although a recent Alcor conference required vax and masking a few years ago & I did not read or hear about any objections to that. Viruses don't exist (Tom Cowen, famous online doctor denying viruses) and I'd like to see if Fahy adopted Cowan or not. (*I'll find out from uptodate Copilot later if possible).
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