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Johnny Boston: What do you see as the biggest challenges, obstacles to not just the work you do here, but your philosphy? Max More: The biggest challange I think is, well first of all, ignorance. People just don't understand these ideas. They don't understand cryonics. They think it's some strange thing you do to dead people. Rather than understanding it really as an extension of emergency medicine, which is the way it should be observed. And I think the other problem, even if they know about it, the problem is fear. So, it's very frequent for me to, you know, people will come on our tour of ALCOR and we explain how it works and they'll say, "You know, that kind of makes sense. I can see how that might actually work but I hope it doesn't work because I'll be so afraid of coming back into a world that's so alien and foreign and i'll be out of date and my schools will be out of date." So, many people would rather die than learn to get used to a different future. Which I find very strange