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-2 Post author: Algon 09 April 2015 06:42PM

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Comment author: advancedatheist 10 April 2015 06:14:10PM 0 points [-]

We need to solve the problem - first - of turning death from a permanent off-state into a temporary and reversible off-state, instead of worrying about "immortality," whatever that means. I keep trying to get cryonicists to adopt this as a new way of explaining the idea, but the older generation of cryonicists apparently can't form the new neural pathways.