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.

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.

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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.

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

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

tldr: you can't transcend humanity without the freedom to do so

How would you know if you had transcended humanity -and what if you were lead to it?

and what if THATSNOW??????

I just don't get why anyone would want to be transhuman

I guess for starters it beats death

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.

Here's a new vid, looks like he has aged a little

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.

After reading this one might want to reset their Amazon Echo as Grandpa.

Huh that was a lot less creepy than I reckoned

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" :)

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

Howd that one work out for ya elders?

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.

The vision may very well be iconic but the portrait is of a disappointingly smaller man than his ideas, not easy given his accomplishments but then we have forgotten Ponce De Leon was a helluva an explorer haven't we?