Reply to: Life : 100% will die.

[BrilloPad]

I'll just fulfil my ambitions to return as a zombie. Version that eats ladies' bottoms instead of brains obviously.

That is why there is a law saying all corpses must be buried with shoes on with the shoelaces tied together.....

[BrilloPad]

I'm more interested in them creating replacement bodies, with brain transplants into robocop style endoskeletons. No point living 'forever' if they find the cure to death when our bodies are already knackered. Need to be able to replace failing parts with plug and play simplicity. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Or perhaps we can download our brains into another body? Sort of thing that has been touched on in Black Mirror.

[xoggoth]

I'll just fulfil my ambitions to return as a zombie. Version that eats ladies' bottoms instead of brains obviously.

[Hobosapien]

No-one makes it passed 120. The only person who said they did was actually the daughter - pretended to be mother to escape IHT.

I'm more interested in them creating replacement bodies, with brain transplants into robocop style endoskeletons. No point living 'forever' if they find the cure to death when our bodies are already knackered. Need to be able to replace failing parts with plug and play simplicity. I'd buy that for a dollar.

[BrilloPad]

No-one makes it passed 120. The only person who said they did was actually the daughter - pretended to be mother to escape IHT.

[original PM]

It has been said that the first person to live to 1000 years is already amongst us.

Indeed - assuming you can trust this man

Living to 1,000: The man who says science will soon defeat ageing

[Hobosapien]

It has been said that the first person to live to 1000 years is already amongst us.

My money is on Keith Richards. Done every drug known to man and still keeps going.

[NigelJK]

It has been said that the first person to live to 1000 years is already amongst us.

[Drei]

Body replication such as 'downloading into a computer' won't transfer your consciousness, so in effect you will die and a copy will continue. Same as what happens during Star Trek teleportation.

The solution to death is body regeneration, that already happens. Our body mostly replaces itself via new cells over 7 to 10 years. They will manage to stop the ageing process so that regeneration brings everlasting life, though death is still possible same as now.

The ageing process could be due to DNA mutation, so one solution may be to capture the DNA of newborns and somehow ensure all new cell regeneration uses that original DNA version, perhaps by stem cell replacement on a regular basis. e.g. a sleep chamber that rolls back DNA mutation each night, so sleep will be even more refreshing than now.



Sadly wild animal eating Chinese virus transfer, religious nutters with nukes, an asteroid hit, alien invasion, or all of them, will bring human civilisation to an end or knock it back to the stone age (again ) before we reach immortality from death by natural causes.

You are correct, forgot to mention the bio-engineering side of things, nanobots, DNA manipulation, Cloning etc.

Considering how overpopulated the planet is, even if we start going out in space, do we really want to live forever? It will be like in Altered Carbon, the rich becoming so much richer and living forever, God complex and all that.


Like you said, we'll most likely not get to that point due to all the factors mentioned.

[Hobosapien]

Body replication such as 'downloading into a computer' won't transfer your consciousness, so in effect you will die and a copy will continue. Same as what happens during Star Trek teleportation.

The solution to death is body regeneration, that already happens. Our body mostly replaces itself via new cells over 7 to 10 years. They will manage to stop the ageing process so that regeneration brings everlasting life, though death is still possible same as now.

The ageing process could be due to DNA mutation, so one solution may be to capture the DNA of newborns and somehow ensure all new cell regeneration uses that original DNA version, perhaps by stem cell replacement on a regular basis. e.g. a sleep chamber that rolls back DNA mutation each night, so sleep will be even more refreshing than now.



Sadly wild animal eating Chinese virus transfer, religious nutters with nukes, an asteroid hit, alien invasion, or all of them, will bring human civilisation to an end or knock it back to the stone age (again ) before we reach immortality from death by natural causes.

[amanwhoisquiet]

There are plenty of very advanced AIs out there

No there aren't.

[WTFH]

People who have the most birthdays tend to live the longest

[Drei]

No you can't and no you won't.

Hth.

Not to go into details, but you can. Do people do it? Maybe some have.

There are plenty of very advanced AIs out there, bots that write essays, paint, poetry etc, and bots that handle social media accounts and other stuff.

If you have the means to upload as much information about your life into a computer, the AI can take over and simulate YOU. Don't be ignorant to today's tech advancement.

There are also facilities that offer cryo services.

If you have tulip loads of money, there may be a way of living forever, look at Tom Cruise after all eh?


Gonna throw in some Black Mirror and West World

[original PM]

I can download my brain to my computer and live forever... the question is, will it be me or just me as a a bunch of data?

After all we are just our memories, made by our experience and the people around us. Delete all of that and we be empty husks.

Prove you exist outside a computer simulation now.

In fact it is more likely that we are than we are not

Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia

[Zigenare]

I can download my brain to my computer and live forever... the question is, will it be me or just me as a a bunch of data?

After all we are just our memories, made by our experience and the people around us. Delete all of that and we be empty husks.

No you can't and no you won't.

Hth.