Very interesting. Would there ever be such a thing as your head is you but we can change any body part we like so it would be a body transplant.

This blew my mind when I read it..
On one hand the double dog disturbed me a bit, but if we didn't have crackpots like this willing to try we wouldn't have had the first organ transplant/blood transfusion/reattached limb etc

Proper fucked to think of the morality of having someone elses body & if you would be still "you" that bit of the article really made me go hmmmm

The poor guy pinning his hopes on it was sad

Made me think of the film 'get out' lol

Lol the bald guy is such a mad scientist cliche

Big talk, maybe a few good ideas here though

Wait a second how does a head live without *any* body during the procedure?

Chill, dude, "Cooling the brain can delay damage for up to an hour—just enough time, perhaps, to transplant a head" :)

Just enough time to image your brain and send it off to the ad network.

I'll take the blue pill, plug me in already

Never

Wheres the logic to that spock?

Because not everyone will have the money for it. The rich will use it and put a price on it to make it unavailable for us normal people. The rich will the feel superior after a drug like that and we all remember what happened in the world of star trek. The eugenics war is something that will unfortunately happen on this planet one day because of them sort of drugs. I must point out I'm not against this sort of thing as science is not good or evil it's how it's used but this sort of thing is are downfall.

Surely this is an issue but most innovations are available to the rich first. What would you think of a world without cars, air travel or computers? Let the rich be our guinea pigs.

That said yeah, downfall for sure.

Yeah it's an issue with most things but when it comes to life changing things like this it's a complete game changer.

It iits infinite it's not youth anymore.

Huh that was a lot less creepy than I reckoned

I love this opening:

You’re on an airplane when you hear a loud sound and things start violently shaking. A minute later, the captain comes on the speaker and says:

There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is going to crash in 15 minutes. There’s no chance of survival. There is a potential way out—the plane happens to be transferring a shipment of parachutes, and anyone who would like to use one to escape the plane may do so. But I must warn you—the parachutes are experimental and completely untested, with no guarantee to work. We also have no idea what the terrain will be like down below. Please line up in the aisle if you’d like a parachute, and the flight attendants will give you one, show you how to use it and usher you to the emergency exit where you can jump. Those who choose not to take that option, please remain in your seat—this will be over soon, and you will feel no pain.

What would you do?

the problem i see is that it's a trust based system and you are trusting people selling an afterlife. that doesn't bring us much further than religious belief in life after death.

I'm going into space when I die :)

relax youre around for several more series

Seems you're off to a great start :)

50/50

Can't say I see a lot of downside with this one.

No way, decaying in the ground is what the elders tell us!

Howd that one work out for ya elders?

we dont really know :)

You still get the chance to be dead with cryonics, it's a win win wrt the elders.

real eye opener, there is no denial this is coming but the early adopters are sure going to be freaky

Make sure she is properly cured and then put in air tight jar.

Does she want to be preserved? This can be a really big deal for her legacy and may freak out her family, it takes some fortitude to get past that.

this. I have a very hard time even talking with people about this basically they think it's a conceit to even consider it.

My gran died a couple of years ago and one of the biggest regrets I have is that I didn't talk with her about her life. My advice is spend as much time with her as possible, talk to her, learn about her (write things down if you need to) - and then keep her in your memories. Pass on your knowledge of her to the next generation. That is basically as close to immortality most of us get.

Exactly this! My gran died in 2014, one year shy of 100. She had seen a lot in her life, being born during World War One. I cherish the chats that we had. As I get older, I realise how privileged I was to have known her. Not only because of who she was but because she was born in another era and her stories and memories were real life history from a very different world to our own.

I might be too old fashioned, but since you're talking about your grandma, that might not be a bad thing. Have you asked her how she feels about death? She might not want to be frozen, or otherwise kept from death. I've had to deal with death way too much recently. It's horrible, and my heart goes out to you. But sometimes dying people see loved ones who are already dead. Real, or imagined, I won't know for sure until I take that last trip. I've started to feel very selfish for keeping my sister on life support as long as I did. Personally, I really believe that death is just a transition. Regardless, I think spending as much time with her as you can, and even recording conversations with her would be a good thing. Whatever you choose, I wish you both well.

Record her talking about her life and memories, oral history vcan be an amazing gateway into the past.

ice, ice baby

One grandma on the rocks, extra sweet.

Plastication may very well be ready within 5 years and it looks not only better than cryonics but also free of any ties to discredited white rappers.

It seems like a perfect idea, instead of fighting the long life of plastics we use this to preserve.

I imagine an undertaker could inject some plastics, use a plastic coffin and we could have masses of people preserved inexpensively.

Hard to find much on this though, Gwern's piece is pretty old

Wait you're gonna go with "plastication" because you think it has less embarrassing analogies than freezing?

If this is possible then it's the kind of thing another intelligence may come up with already. Maybe we are part of such a process ...
{stoned thouhht}

You know this isnt totally crazy, the cost of putting a head into space is coming down and then the cold storage is free for a real long time.

Great idea. Better stay away from singularities (black holes) though. Small matter of your residual info on the event horizon sputtering away like radio static thanks to Hawking radiation.

Hate it when that happens :)

Youre surely a bigga I'd like to smoke with

And reconciled it all with Christianity, seems like a memeplex that could take off today.

take off i get it! do you need to do anything to participate or just die and wait?

if you are happy with a transporter room kind of version then sure, but did we tell you about your premium storage options?

Fantastic.

Fuck that

Yeah I actually think one of those guys is working customer service for my cable company.

Sounds good to we!

No wonder you remind me of my grandma!

Immortality with Alexa - now that's Hell.

TLDR the brain evolved to handle more connections with big breakthroughs occurring when people learned to communicate between multitudes and generations.

Now we need to do the same thing with AI or it will get smart so fast that we won't have anything in common with it. Elon Musks wants to create a faster machine/mind interface to do this before we run out of time.

It's leaving the anti douches - dirty cunts I call them for purposes of accuracy - that makes the re-animation worth waiting for.

tldr please don't want to invest an entire 9 minutes without a sure payoff :-}

This guy and his naught generation jumped on to the nano bandwagon but it stalled since tools to make anything are "impossible".

Now they have the answer - chemistry. It's how nature makes wonders out of tiny particles.

Thanks that's perfect Squire, thanks. Still wondering what this has to do with post humanism though.

Nano tech is foundational tech for lots of post human things like advanced robots and even revivification for humans.

What if each brain uploaded - or rather the owner of such brain gets a royalty?

Depends whose brain gets uploaded, what if a slacker replicates?

Isn't that exactly what happen in Back to the Future with all the Marty McFlys? We can handle this.

It's a bit vague if you ask me because it means *everything* that comes after us: AI, cyborgs, augmented humans and god knows what else. I prefer "trans-humanism" which implies people transcending the human body.

Post Humanism means information tech based evolution whereas transhumanism means the "everything"

*When* is post humanism?

That's a lot like the question "When is the Singularity?" the moment that artificial intelligence passes humans'. A lot of people laughed at Kurzweil's predictions for this happening in the 2020s, but with all the progress in the last year and the exponential curve this is following he might be right.