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[futureofscience]

I had a search on the site but couldn't find any reference to this book from Bryan Appleyard

How to Live Forever or Die Trying

Has anyone read it and can recommend it ? There are no reviews on Amazon but I thought this would be right up our street on here.

Is it related to the chat he gave http://www.imminst.o...&f=63&t=7114&s= ?

[Bruce Klein]

Here's an excerpt of the book chapter talking about the ImmInst Atlanta Conf:
http://www.imminst.o...ST&f=69&t=15136

[gavrilov]

For more on this book, please see:

http://longevity-sci...07/01/sens.html

Hope it helps,

Kind regards,

[brokenportal]

I dont recall seeing this before. This is excellent. I just found it in google when looking for imminst's traffic rankings.

http://entertainment...l...et=0&page=1

I like these quotes and sections:

Within the context of the pursuit of immortality, Imminst fills a gap in a very crowded field. Alcor in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the Cryonics Institute in Clinton, Michigan, specialise in advocating and practising the deep freezing of people immediately after death in the hope that they can be revived by superior medical technology at some point in the future. The Extropy Institute and the World Transhumanist Association focus on all the ways in which we can technologically transcend our biological condition. In Silicon Valley, California, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence pursues the AI route, particularly studying the ways in which we could guarantee the ‘friendliness’ of any such machine. SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) follows a tightly focused medical programme defined by Aubrey de Grey, a scientist based in Cambridge in the UK. The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine seeks to push the boundaries of mainstream medicine in the direction of increased longevity. The Methuselah Foundation primarily runs the Mprize aimed at encouraging research into increasing longevity in mice. And so on. But only Imminst acts as an open-minded forum for all ideas about increasing human longevity. It is neither general like Extropy nor specific like Alcor, SENS or the Singularity Institute, it is simply concerned with the pursuit of human immortality by whatever means seem most promising.

And, so of the angry scientists’ assertion that none of his ideas have ever been shown to extend the life of any organism in isolation, he says: ‘I do not recall Henry Ford alerting potential customers that the components of a car – in isolation – remain obstinately stationary when burning petrol is poured on them, nor do I recall his being castigated for this omission.’

James Hughes, a sociologist from the World Transhumanist Association, attacks the bioconservatives and the Christian Right in the name of ‘what we have the potential to become through reason’. Brad Mellon, a Christian theologian, says we must get beyond right-wingers and left-wingers and become ‘upwingers’. Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence shows a slide of a graveyard and asks, ‘Are you as tired of this as I am?’ Ben Goertzel of Novamente points out that we eat lower animals, we don’t want Martine Rothblatt’s transbemans eating us. Max More, founder of the Extropy Institute, gives a lecture on how to persuade doubters of the virtues of pursuing immortality. The bouncy ‘certified financial planner’ Rudi Hoffman, who wears a T-shirt that asks: ‘May I bid on your cryonics life insurance?’, tells the conference that ‘it would be insane not to hit the “save” key on you and your life’.

I also found this, which Im going to post in the Felcia Ackerman interview topic.

http://article.wn.co...th_greatly_ext/

I thought this was all excellent and I cant help but feel like there must be so much more out there that a lot of us dont know about yet as well. When we say the small things add up, we mean it, keep up the great work. I think theres a good chance we might be able to inform the whole world about this cause in even less than 5 years.