Danila Medvedev is a futurologist and co-founder of KrioRus, the first cryonics company in Russia. He believes that immortality is possible and can be found within the icy depths of liquid nitrogen.
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00:0010 years ago, the answer was simple, to tell about it to your acquaintances, to propagandize, to argue with friends, to repost some texts about transhumanism.
00:15Today we have achieved that people know enough about immortality, about the extension of life, about transhumanism.
00:24My name is Danila Medvedev, I am 38 years old, and I am an applied futurist.
00:31We will be able to create a society-utopia, where all people have the opportunity to extend their lives, where every person has access to everything he needs, that is, to food, to medical care, to education, to material resources.
00:45In the 21st century, we have come to the point when we approximately understand what are the ways to achieve immortality, and what was once a dream, it is now gradually becoming a technological reality.
00:56Of course, any human organ can be cloned, you can create an artificial one and transplant it to a human, but, on the other hand, the operations to grow human organs have not yet begun.
01:09That is, only very simple ones, such as a urine bubble or skin, and everything else, in the future.
01:17In a few years, this led to the emergence of the Russian transhumanist movement, and then, in a couple of years, to the emergence of CreaRose.
01:31And this practice, it is called cryonics, here people of all ages, of all backgrounds, used cryonics in order to be frozen and thus get a chance that someday they will come to life.
01:47In Russia, more than 60 people turned to CreaRose.
01:58This can be done, first of all, with the help of low temperature, that is, by cooling the body, or only the brain or head of a person, to a temperature at which all chemical processes stop.
02:09For this, the temperature of liquid nitrogen is enough, that is, a temperature of minus 196 degrees.
02:14We know that this works, because at such a temperature, doctors have been storing human embryos for a long time, which are then used for artificial fertilization.
02:24To this day, the consensus among specialists in the field of cryobiology, which deal with low temperatures and how living organisms behave at these temperatures,
02:34is that, potentially, the structure of memory, that is, the structure of a person's personality, can be preserved with such a procedure.
02:42And this means that there is a chance that we will be able to restore not only a person's body, but also his personality, his memory.
02:49A person is not the pinnacle of evolution, it is just one of the links.