ImmortalityA second POST! It has been a while but listening to the Final Five Cylon theme has somewhat rekindled my desire to portray ideas, and such a fitting song since my mind has chronotemporally fixated on the idea of Immortality. As such, I have determined the 3 methods by which one may attain immortality and the problems faced with each. I will be listing 4, but you will see why its included but not an actual method.
1. Regeneration - Regeneration is probably the most desirable form of immortality, although it is the longest in its actions. There are two methods I can perceive as being the route to achieving regenerative immortality, the first being stem cells and the second being nanrobotics. The stem cells are probably the slowest to function of the two, but they are the closest humans have achieved as of yet. Nanorobotics is a much faster and better method, and I shall explain why in a bit. Either of the two, due to their ability to restore a body to its prime functioning state, are the 2 best candidates, (although there is another one I'm mulling over in my mind, it has to do with cancerous cells). The downside to both is the side effect that they would both be overwriting stored information in the brain in order to revitalize it. Stem cells have no ability to change this, it is merely how they function but with the nanomachinces, they could, if programmed with the complete layout of the mind, which would then have to be analyzed and finally repaired with the minimal loss of information.
2. Reincarnation - There a multitude of methods for this topic, but I assume there are maybe two good ones, but please inform me of any other ones. The first is a complete brain transfer, obviously the most difficult as of right now, but we may find easier ways of doing this, but connecting all those nerve endins would be a pain, and I imagine a large portion would require stem cell research technology. The second method is a memory implant. Combining cyberneurotics and neurochemistry may be able to create some sort of ability to literally implant memories into a new body, unfortunately, this poses more problems if the doner body already has memories of their own, in both instances, yes even if the donor's brain is removed, there is a theory that information can also reside in proteineous tissue (muscle memory) and we haven't even cracked the idea of genetic memories which I for one believe exists. Either way, through implant or transplant, this is a more difficult method, but it alos creates lossless information transfer if done correctly.
3. Cybernetics - Or Cyberneurotics as I like to call it. Transferring ones own mind into information, which can then be stored, copied, and transferred. This method would mostly be used to transplant the information into another body. Once the brain to computer interface is developed this method will actually be the easiest I think, and once you are backed up to a machine, you can pretty much do with it what you want. This method can also be combined with organic computing to create artificial bodies for implantation of memories. This is getting ahead of what I was saying.
4. Epic Deeds - While not true immortality, it is a form of it. Doing epic deeds will not only put you into history, but as long as our civilization holds, you will be remembered in books and the things you've done, and finally after our civilization ends, you will be remembered in stories, and if tributes to you are created that can withstand the course of time, in monuments to you. These monuments will spark interest, and finally people will want to know why you had a monument and so they will creates a story for you. So while you may not live on, the things you felt strong enough about will.
So ends this post on immortality, I'm getting distracted and most of the things I wanted to say have been said, please comment on it, I enjoy hearing other's opinions for it is only with the input of outside influences do we change.
