when he first announced his intention to have his brain surgically removed from his freshly vacated cadaver and preserved in liquid nitrogen
I’m fairly sure that head-only preservation doesn’t involve any brain-removal. It’s interesting that in context the purpose of the phrase was to present a creepy image of cryonics, and so the bias towards the phrases that accomplish this goal won over the constraint of not generating fiction.
A factual error:
I’m fairly sure that head-only preservation doesn’t involve any brain-removal. It’s interesting that in context the purpose of the phrase was to present a creepy image of cryonics, and so the bias towards the phrases that accomplish this goal won over the constraint of not generating fiction.