US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record

[hyruga]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wne86ex9qo

A baby boy has been born to an Ohio couple from an embryo that was frozen for more than 30 years, reportedly setting a new world record.

Lindsey, 35, and Tim Pierce, 34, welcomed their son, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, on Saturday. Ms Pierce told MIT Technology Review her family thought "it's like something from a sci-fi movie".

It is believed to be longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth. The previous record-holder was a pair of twins who were born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992.

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

What is amazing on it. They froze consciousness evolutionary process and after many years defrost it and it worked as usual. There are some animals that freeze totally even after adult stage and come back to life again when clime gets better, I think is a frog. 

[Jannes]

I wonder what the consciousness experience of an embryo being frozen for 30 years is. 

[Basman]

18 hours ago, Jannes said:

I wonder what the consciousness experience of an embryo being frozen for 30 years is. 

Pretty chill I bet.

[hyruga]

On 04/08/2025 at 5:30 AM, Rafael Thundercat said:

What is amazing on it. They froze consciousness evolutionary process and after many years defrost it and it worked as usual. There are some animals that freeze totally even after adult stage and come back to life again when clime gets better, I think is a frog. 

Captain America was frozen for many years as well before coming back!

[Carl-Richard]

On 4.8.2025 at 0:58 AM, Jannes said:

I wonder what the consciousness experience of an embryo being frozen for 30 years is. 

There is analytical idealism postulating every organism, even single-celled, has a private consciousness, and then there are mystics claiming to have entered the womb at a certain point (some state this happens around 40-48 days after conception). Are these contradictory, or are both correct? Could there be a mind prior to the subtle mind entering that "merges" with the subtle mind? Or are the minds always separate, even as the organism develops (maybe the first mind is the Unconscious of the other)? I actually think this is Bernardo's position: the parts of your self (including your body) that you cannot access introspectively, is the Unconscious. If the first mind is the mind of the body and the Unconscious, this could explain why a more "Conscious" aspect of the mind could enter later.

This could actually have implications for gender incongruence. If the subtle mind has been in mostly female bodies, it entering a male body could cause feminine behavior, homosexuality or dysmorphia.

Edited August 9 by Carl-Richard