Scientists have already increased the lifespan of rats in experiments, and are saying that similar drugs could increase the average life span of a human being by about 30% in the very near future.
Our cells replicate and die, day after day, throughout our entire lives. Unfortunately, as we continue to age, the replicated cells become less accurate copies, less efficient in the way that they work.
If scientists can slow down this process, or prevent cell deterioration all together, humans could live for extremely long periods of time. Cell deterioration is a big factor in the prevalence of numerous diseases and afflictions that effect us as we age. Along with this increase in life span, would likely come an increase in health.
There are also plenty of scientific outlets (like theNational Science Foundation) who profess that humans may have the ability to upload their conciousness to computers before this century is up. (A $1 computer in 2030 is expected to have the processing power of a human brain.)
Science is expanding at exponential rates. Scientists will discover more in the next 10 years than they have in the last 50.
I don't think it's a question that humans will continue to live longer and longer lives. But do you believe that human beings will ever live for multiple centuries?
Do you believe that humans (in the distant distant distant distant future) will live forever?
I dont see why its impossibe BUT, just because we can imagine it, doesnt mean it is possible to stop the deterioration of tissue cells, and all that fun stuff, though maybe slow it down tremendously. Didnt that one lady years ago find that gene that she named the "Grim Reaper gene' in worms that when deactivated made them live like 3 times longer? I wonder what became of that, I might look it up.. Anyways, I think we will progressively age less and less as science improves itself, but I dont know about humans living for eternity.. As for the consienceness thing.. I still think thats impossible because to do something like that you would have to pinpoint the exact point of the brain that gives us our individuality, and than find a way to somehow make the brain transfer its function and data into this false brain and than just start up again and continue as normal.... maybe I'm wrong int the possible process but the way I'm thinking of its impossible to transfer. Maybe if they can severely slow down the degration of the brain tissues, there would be a way to transfer the part of the brain that gives you your individuality and surround it with technology that lets it function as a brain and gives it control of a body so that the body is no longer a factor and only the small piece of organic brain is left to be worried about and over time maintained. Eventualy yes you could copy the human brain and make artificial humanoid clones of people who would know all the functions of the person they were modeled after and even be able to learn and continue learning as if they were that person, but it wouldnt actually be that person you know...
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