Re: If you can make it to the year 2050, you could live forever
Surprisingly touches on a number of topics surrounding immortality tho... Regrowing body parts with stem cells (ethical hiccup, stem cells usually come from aborted fetuses) and curing cancer are going to have to come way before uploading your consciousness though heh. Once we cure cancer we're going to find out what our next killer is gonna be.
Still have absolutely no idea how the brain creates 'consciousness' outside of the basic motor and regulatory functions... As in, if you tried to 'pin-point' where your consciousness is you couldn't. Could argue that all that consciousness is is a foundation of memories built from first experiences followed by a buildup of self-reassurances for those memories experienced throughout life (i.e. one person views a situation one way, another person in a different way from theirs, upbringing has a really large impact on this).
Cryogenics my friend. Really is the best bet. $200,000 for your whole body, $80,000 for your head. Still run a ton of risks doing it, but nothing else preservers you....
Have to really think if the Cryonics Institute will still be in business hundreds of years from now... some world catastrophe knocks the power out for more than 2mo and you're toast... not to mention is there a contract to revive you and where are the funds stored.... and then the costs involved... how do you estimate revival costs for a procedure that doesn't even exist yet... I doubt your great great x1000 grand kids are really gonna care about you nor would they want to blow $400,000 to revive 1,000 yr old grandpa.
Last edited by Sunspot144; 01-29-2019 at 11:41 PM.
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