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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 24 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

I want a brain update and a penis upgrade please! Yes 275Tb of ram for my penis and 6" of brain 🧠!

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

Cyberpunk, let’s gooo🤣

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[–] casmael@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH IT DISGUSTED ME

zipbomb time

[–] teft@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 day ago (13 children)

This is the correct way IMO. "Uploading" your mind to a computer is making a clone/copy, but the original dies the same.

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maintaining continuity of consciousness is the only thing that would make me feel comfortable with converting myself to a machine intelligence.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I hate to break it to you, but our meat brains don't even have continuity of consciousness. We become unconscious all the time. The only real constant is the "hardware" our consciousness emerges from, but even that is always changing.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 19 hours ago (13 children)

I don't get the down votes. Did y'all forget about sleep? No one vividly dreams every night all night long. Often it's the fade to black going to sleep then the sudden awakening.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 38 points 1 day ago

Except our brains are still functioning. If they didn't keep functioning, we'd be brain dead. The point is that there's a common thread that connects every waking moment together.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 56 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

As long as it's made mandatory to cover with insurance so it's available to everyone. The last thing we need is an immortal ruling class.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Is a forever expanding population of old people much better?

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hoping real hard that Alternate Carbon is not becoming reality.

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[–] Vieric@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, going by past history this will be available to any and....uhh, [checks notes] oh, uh-oh.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Oh at this point it seems like we're treating dystopian science fiction as a guidebook instead of a warning.

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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 11 points 9 hours ago

Let the death of Saburo Arasaka be a lesson to us all: even 150+ year old bastards can get choked the fuck out

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We don't need immortal billionaires sucking up everyone's oxygen.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

If you haven't, you should watch and/or read Altered Carbon.

If you choose to watch, it is my opinion that it's primarily the first season that's worth watching.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

The final boss of subscriptions

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

There are two reasons he believes the neocortex could be replaced, albeit only slowly. The first is evidence from rare cases of benign brain tumors, like a man described in the medical literature who developed a growth the size of an orange. Yet because it grew very slowly, the man’s brain was able to adjust, shifting memories elsewhere, and his behavior and speech never seemed to change—even when the tumor was removed.

That’s proof, Hébert thinks, that replacing the neocortex little by little could be achieved “without losing the information encoded in it” such as a person’s self-identity.

The second source of hope, he says, is experiments showing that fetal-stage cells can survive, and even function, when transplanted into the brains of adults. For instance, medical tests underway are showing that young neurons can integrate into the brains of people who have epilepsy and stop their seizures.

“It was these two things together—the plastic nature of brains and the ability to add new tissue—that, to me, were like, ‘Ah, now there has got to be a way,’” says Hébert.

Very interesting. I've also seen research suggesting that the application of stem cells to damaged neural tissue within the spinal cord could repair it, so the idea that you could use a similar approach to actual brain health isn't such a big leap. But still, wow. I wonder how long it would take for the immature cells to develop into "adult mode" that's fully integrated into the patients cortex. In order to replace the entire brain, you'd have to do it in like, 8 parts, with years of recovery time in between each surgery. Also there would exist the potential for the new cells to develop into like, a second, smaller brain, if the connections sour or if the new material isn't stimulated the "right" way.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I don't want to live longer, fix my fucking knees and back.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago

...fresh cloned bodies...

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The brain renewal concept could have applications such as treating stroke victims

If this can restore functions to stroke victims again, it's absolutely amazing.
If this is vastly successful which remains to be seen, there might be a path format to the longevity part of the idea.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

No thanks. We don't need rich people living forever.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Might be the only way to get them to give a shit about the environment.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

I doubt it. They will just dump shit further away. If their solution default is to make things "somebody else's problem" there's no reason to believe they will stop thinking that way.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Millennials and Gen Z: *bond over their death wish Scientists: *ETERNAL LIFE

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[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am not renting my corporeal existence from a megacorporation. There is no way this is ever affordable to the masses without some pretty huge caveats

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Caveat 1: Move out of the US

Caveat 2: ???

Caveat 3: Extended youth

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 12 points 9 hours ago

President Joe Biden created ARPA-H in 2022, as an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, to pursue what he called  “bold, urgent innovation”

I did not see Biden creating a cloning and immortality medical research arm of the government but I guess it's proof he already knew he was getting old before the debate and no wonder Trump wants back in the white house.

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