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- MY OWN INTERESTS IN CRYONICS ARE A MESSY MISH-MASH OF DIFFERENT MOTIVES.
I read some magazine article by Max More back when he was starting the Extropians in the mid-1990s. Then a book came out, The Engines of Creation, about nanotechnology. I’m a very hands-on thinker and am drawn to three-dimensional, mechanical-type things, which is why I went into Otolaryngology. For me, cryopreservation was an obvious mechanical problem. You’ve got molecules; why not lock them in place so that somebody can fix them later? All these things happening in our cells are just mechanical processes—they are just little machines, basically—and if you can stop them before they start to disintegrate, that seems like a good thing.