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Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones: The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body.
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Interesting idea, but you'd have to solve the whole brain still going through the process of senescence problem. Essentially the brain is still deteriorating at the same rate and eventually dies from old age even if the body continues to sustain it. And of course, you'd have to figure out how to safely "hook up" the brain.
SciFi can be interesting, but the pursuit of immortality or even extensive longevity always seemed to me like a very very bad idea to me. I like living, I don't like living enough to want to do it forever.
Myself, I always saw the point of the pursuit of immortality to not actually be immortality, but letting you choose when you're truly done with the world rather than dying of some arbitrary cause out of your control.
Some might decide they're done at 70 years, some at 700. The societal changes needed to make it work would be immense, but wresting control of your death date from luck and nature into your own hands seems a worthy enough goal to me.
Our 70 year old politicians are pretty detached from their constituents and society. I'm a bit scared to imagine a 700 year old politician
On the other hand, if they had to face living to see the consequences of their actions they would have some motive to not shit everything up.
One would hope by the time a conversation on human immortality becomes relevant, society will have found a way to limit the damage such a person could do.
Wishful thinking I suppose.
I imagine it'd look a lot like the groups that have been pushing the same issues for a long time - i.e American evangelicals trying to work God into the constitution for the past two centuries.
I think a big thing is getting a society that is equitable and regenerative. Not dying would be kinda great for a long time in a star trek type of universe but in a drill abay drill while we kil off the fertility of the world and some men are worth a million times the average man and some have nothing. That world is hard to want to live in.
just make it do sudoku, duh..
Best way to become biologically immortal is probably to solve aging directly in your own body via some sort of whole body viral gene therapy.
Then your still mortal and can be killed so you can chose when to go.
My person preference for immortality would be some sort of live un-interupted transition from a human brain to a computationally simulated one. Only if I personally own my own infrastructure though. That way I can ensure I don't get manipulated. Then probably copy my conscious 100x over and spread over geographically. Maybe keep a copy in a extra solar satellite or something.
Allow me to turn you off of that idea permanently lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE49pA_eDX0
As long as I owned the machine and where my brain will live later and have personally verified that it works I'd be down
Usually you want more than you get, though.
It is a trope I hate in sci-fi. I cheated death by putting my brain in a robot. Ok... So now we have a robot with Alzheimer's...
Despite the show being kind of awful on various levels, I really liked what they did with a similar concept in The Boys.
The Boys Season 4 spoilers
Using the magiscience superhero superhealing potion did not fix Hugh Sr.'s broken brain after his stroke. Now he just has a superpowered broken brain, that's super broken in horrifying ways, and powers that he can't control.Yeah, I saw that scene where he phased into that guy's body in the hospital. I was eating my breakfast. I genuinely find the attention to detail in the gore quite disturbing
I mean as far as startups go its about on par making one about creating replicators but senescence is actually a good thing and we do keep on making cells. With everything else being young and healthy its possible the blood and organs will clean out detrious (like senescent cell) and allow for better creation of new cells. Im not saying it would last forever but it could possibly go much longer.