Which current and future technologies would benefit fixing the human 'robot', and why is it currently not feasible?<p>E.g. would you approach it from the 'immortal jellyfish' perspective, from cell regeneration, 'transporting' into an earlier version, transfer of the mind, etc.?
May I ask why we need to battle mortality?
People tend to forget our body's limitations and that all the extra years add to the end, not in the middle.
Not to mention the implications it might have on reproduction. People wont want to have children and slowly our numbers will decline.
Also this will bring up an issue depriving ourself's of new Isaac Newtons, Einsteins and all the other bright mind and great people who would have been born and now they aren't.
We always forget that strength lies in diversity.
And lastly, do we really want to give immortality to people who do not contribute anything to our society?
How do we determine who is worth the while to live for hundreds of years? And how will we convince the other parts of society that this is beneficial for all of us?
Too many questions on a human level which are ignored, or it looks like they are ignored...<p>Instead of spending all our time in the shadow of mortality why not we just step out in the light and enjoy life in its brief moment and make the most of it?<p>Don't get me wrong, I would like to live forever, but it might have greater risks for mankind then the benefits it holds.
I think it's something of a tragedy that sentient life-forms die before they're ready to do so, before they've crossed off the last item on their bucket list, so to speak.<p>Sure, "immortality" in humans would present a variety of potential problems, but new technologies often do. Should we not have created cars, planes, nuclear power, etc. because of the risks we foresaw? Let's deal with the issues as they arise, rather than use them as an excuse not to try in the first place.<p>How would I approach the problem? "All of the above." Follow all plausible and ethical courses of action to see where they lead. It's too early to tell which method(s) will be effective, but if something is physically possible in this arena I expect we'll try it sooner or later.
use baculovirus to serially and temporally express telomerase and keep the telomere count between 3000-8000 for all cells in the human body. Then figure out some way to flush out senescent cells
Improve end of life care and the way people die.<p>Start making it acceptable for people to talk about death - how they'd like to die; what they want to happen to their organs or body after their death; what kind of funeral they want.<p>It's really important to let your family know how you feel about being hooked up to machines or how you'd feel about living with dementia or similar.
Transfer of the mind, definitely. Hardware independence. Plus possibility of backups. Even if your body is completely vaporized in a blast, you can come back if there is a backup of you.<p>Forget immortality through the extension of the biological life of the body; yonder lies folly.
We've proven we can increase the lifespan of nematodes by what is equivalent to 300 years in human lifespan. If we can at least make it 150, then we have a chance at 300 and if we make 300 we have a chance at 500 and so on.<p>We can then truly solve for space travel and populating other planets and we'll have lifespans that enable us to travel for extended periods of time - a Universal requirement for the human species.