There are two main approaches to overcoming the biological limits of human lifespan: 1. curing aging 2. mind uploading And while in the last few years I focused on the first approach, the second one is what attracted me to the life extension community in the first place. It just seemed such an elegant solution…… Continue reading The first step toward software-based life
Category: Suspended animation
Your digital afterlife
We mentally inhabit the virtual world, but we still get born, breathe and die in the real world. And unlike our ancestors, we create mountains of digital data where they would have created smaller mountains of print data. We write emails. They wrote letters. We shoot pictures. They painted or drew. We record videos. They…… Continue reading Your digital afterlife
When flesh becomes plastic
Medicine is not about routine bureaucracy. Medicine is an art. And some physicians extended the creative part of it beyond what is normally expected. Because medicine is more than scribbling a receipt. Medicine is about diagnosing problems and solving them. And when no treatment is to be found, medicine is about dealing with human suffering.…… Continue reading When flesh becomes plastic
Art as Memento Mori – An Interview with Mia-Jane Harris
I stumbled upon Mia-Jane Harris’ art while surfing Pinterest. She takes disposed corpses and turns them into beautiful art. To me that’s the ultimate art: turning something naturally associated with quench and turning it into a museum-deserving piece. As a physician dealing with life and death, I was naturally drawn towards her perspective and…… Continue reading Art as Memento Mori – An Interview with Mia-Jane Harris