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Said permanent solution will likely require some volunteers though after all on the way to perfecting it. So it would likely be used on critical patients who h
by AstralStorm 7y ago
Said permanent solution will likely require some volunteers though after all on the way to perfecting it.
So it would likely be used on critical patients who have signed an extended organ donation pledge. Maybe. Likely some will object to any, even voluntary, form of experimentation with anyone's brain.
By the way, maintaining even a brain in cryostasis is expensive compared to such experiments.
- gwern 7y ago> By the way, maintaining even a brain in cryostasis is expensive compared to such experiments. Not really. You can maintain a brain in an LN2 tank for like $100 a year: LN2 is one of the cheapest fluids around. Very very few biology experiments come anywhere close to costs like that.