What kind of immortality would you rather come true?

[acri1]

Would probably have to go with the anti-aging genetics.

But yeah, the AI and Digital Immortality ones seem like they're just copies of you that will survive after the original you dies. Kind of like if somebody made an exact clone of you (including memories) and killed the original you.

 

[acri1]

How close are we to any of this though? Every time you hear of a breakthrough in the scientific community you don't hear anything about it ever again. I personally believe there's a conspiracy at play to suppress technology/science. Or perhaps the elite are hoarding it all for themselves?

We're nowhere near being able to do any of these and won't be in our lifetimes. It's still fun to think about though.

The only thing that might happen in our lifetimes is the genetics one, but to a much lesser extent. Basically we might be able to slow down aging to an extent...but you'd still get old and die, you just might have a lot more people living to be 110+.

 

[CHL]

We're nowhere near being able to do any of these and won't be in our lifetimes. It's still fun to think about though.

For the youngest people alive today you never know...if there are various life extension technologies available in the next 40-50 years implemented in the intermediary while actual anti aging technology is being developed, they may live long enough to see it come to fruition

 

[ThatTruth777]

what about using the dragon balls to wish for immortality

 

[Meta Reign]

First one. Won't even bother with the others.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

anti aging might be the safest option

i was thinking cyborgization but idk how long i could last before becoming depressed without my real body

 

[OsO]

We're nowhere near being able to do any of these and won't be in our lifetimes. It's still fun to think about though.

The only thing that might happen in our lifetimes is the genetics one, but to a much lesser extent. Basically we might be able to slow down aging to an extent...but you'd still get old and die, you just might have a lot more people living to be 110+.

i expect a lot of these advancements will be available in our lifetime.

the technology the govt/military has is way more advanced than anything released to the public. i'd guess the average american, people like you and me, are about 20 years behind the actual technology curve. in fact i wouldn't be surprised if some circles have already achieved some of these outcomes.

 

[Propaganda]

who needs all that shyt when you have sunlight and LLE

 

[Delicious]

1. Seems to preserve the person as much as possible. If you had damage to your physical self or wanted to change how you look, you can get corrective/cosmetic surgery and start over. Would suck if you fukked up the base function of a body part/organ and can't ever restore it to perfect working condition though.

2. Might be a little better than 1 since you can grow new parts instead of constantly fixing damage or making changes to the existing parts. Seems like the regrowth of a a body or parts needs to be compatible with whatever you're "bringing along" from the previous version of you, so you get to keep some surface individuality/identity. Without that, the world would be full of Youtube commenters.

3. . If you get fukked up you stuck with the shyt you had for however long you choose to live.

4. . Something bothers me about an international system that holds all our brain backups. I like the idea of nanobots replacing our cells, but when that shyt leaks into our brain and consciousness, and starts uploading itself places, it bothers me. I guess there's an assumption here that you can back yourself up and get a new body? 50/50 on this one.

5. . But wait... What if the final upload is to a simulation of life as you knew it, and you just get to live it out in the new RealLife MMO? You live and die over and over in this shyt and never know the difference.

Or is that what we're living in now?

6. Doesn't seem much different from 4 on the brain level. I can see nikkas now like.. "It's 3rd and 1, 10 seconds left down by 7. Bring up the Belicheck v2.0 persona and feed these parameters in.

7.I can ride with the borg revolution so long as I can back my brain up somewhere and go up and use/abuse my new robo body. Can you imagine how many of these coli fades would actually go down if nigs knew it was nothing to go, catch the fade, maybe get shot, and just restore back at the crib when the new body is fresh? I feel like shyt like the Grammy's would be out of control. Nobody would recognize any damn body until they actually said who they are. "AYO YOU SEEN YEEZY? THAT nikka SHOWED UP AS A MECHALIZARD WITH 45 ARMS ALL WITH A AUTOTUNED MIC INSTEAD OF HANDS"



I'ma go with 2.

 

[Chill]

Anti-Aging
Nanotechnology
Cyborg

 

[Truth200]

Even if they could just cure more forms of disease and injuries would be a start.

Cancer, Arthritis, Brain & Spine injuries ect...

 

[TOAD99]

Anti-Aging is probably the best bet, although I do not believe that would grant us full blown immortality and instead cause the average age of death to be 120 or so. Regeneration and the nanotech are at second as you still preserve your consciousness at what seems to be minimal risk. Plus having nanobots constantly check for problems within and fixing them seems like a great thing. The AI and Digital Immortality is a big no, basically seems like a carbon copy is made and that wouldn't really qualify as true immortality imo.

That being said, it is an interesting topic but I doubt that true immortality will be reached in our lifetime or for the younger generation.

 

[Truth200]

First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims

Doctor plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body using procedures he believes will soon be ready

A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years.

Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.

Canavero hopes to assemble a team to explore the radical surgery in a project he is due to launch at a meeting for neurological surgeons in Maryland this June.

He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.

The Italian doctor, who recently published a broad outline of how the surgery could be performed, told New Scientist magazine that he wanted to use body transplants to prolong the lives of people affected by terminal diseases.

“If society doesn’t want it, I won’t do it. But if people don’t want it, in the US or Europe, that doesn’t mean it won’t be done somewhere else,” he said. “I’m trying to go about this the right way, but before going to the moon, you want to make sure people will follow you.”

Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic.

The history of transplantation is full of cases where people hated their new appendages and had them removed. The psychological burden of emerging from anaesthetic with an entirely new body is firmly in uncharted territory. Another hitch is that medical ethics boards would almost certainly not approve experiments in primates to test whether the procedure works.

But Canavero wants to provoke a debate around these issues. “The real stumbling block is the ethics,” he told New Scientist. “Should this surgery be done at all? There are obviously going to be many people who disagree with it.”

The idea of body transplants – or head transplants, depending on the perspective – has been tried before. In 1970, Robert White led a team at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, US, that tried to transplant the head of one monkey on to the body of another. The surgeons stopped short of a full spinal cord transfer, so the monkey could not move its body.

A lull in attempted body transplants followed White’s experiments, but last year researchers at Harbin Medical University in China made some headway with mice. They hope to perfect a procedure they claim “will become a milestone of medical history and potentially could save millions of people”.

Despite Canavero’s enthusiasm, many surgeons and neuroscientists believe massive technical hurdles push full body transplants into the distant future. The starkest problem is that no one knows how to reconnect spinal nerves and make them work again. Were that possible, people paralysed by spinal injuries could have surgery to make them walk again.

“There is no evidence that the connectivity of cord and brain would lead to useful sentient or motor function following head transplantation,” Richard Borgens, director of the Center for Paralysis Research at Purdue University in Indiana, US, told New Scientist.

According to the procedure Canavero outlined this month, doctors would first cool the patient’s head and the donor’s body so their cells do not die during the operation. The neck is then cut through, the blood vessels linked up with thin tubes, and the spinal cord cut with an exceptionally sharp knife to minimise nerve damage. The recipient’s head is then moved on to the donor’s body.

The next stage is trickier. Canavero believes that the spinal cord nerves that would allow the recipient’s brain to talk to the donor’s body can be fused together using a substance called polyethylene glycol. To stop the patient moving, they must be kept in a coma for weeks. When they come round, Canavero believes they would be able to speak and feel their face, though he predicts they would need a year of physiotherapy before they could move the body.

“This is such an overwhelming project, the possibility of it happening is very unlikely,” Harry Goldsmith, professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, Davis, told the magazine.



http://www.theguardian.com/society/...splant-two-years-away-surgeon-claim?CMP=fb_gu

 

[88m3]

I want the kind where I get to enslave the edomites for eternity.

 

[tmonster]

The next stage is trickier