Can Technology make Humans Immortal?
Автор: Shifu Digital
Загружено: 2021-03-04
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Ever since humans have evolved on earth, they have wanted to be immortal. Be it the search for the elixir of life or struggle to make a medicine that delays death, scientists plan to go to any extent to defeat death. With the advent of modern technology, this goal does start to come closer to reality. Gerontologists, such as Aubrey de Grey, say that growing old is also a disease that can be cured. This means that people may get themselves refreshed and repaired every few years in the future. The future can be a world without diseases, growing old, and death. A world without death can be made with the help of technology. Three main ways it might be done in the future are cryonics, mind uploading, and singularitarians.
Cryonics
Cryonics is the process of storing a dead body by freezing it at around −196 °C. Bodies are preserved until an antidote is created for the reason of their death. Once the treatment is found, the body can be left to soften and then worked over to get rid of the cause of death.
For the preservation to be successful, memories must remain intact when the body is thawed. According to many scientists, freezing of memories is impossible, which means this method of preservation may not be the best.
Scientists have now started doing vitrification. The addition of chemicals called cryoprotectants freezes the body at very low temperatures without forming ice on them. This lets us study organs in great detail because organs are preserved in a perfect structure.
Mind uploading
This is a hypothetical futuristic process in which the brain's structure is digitally mapped, and all the emulation is so exact that it captures the brain's mental state. The mental state includes all thoughts and feelings as well as long-term memory. It is captured on a computer for future replication. This is also known as WBE, whole brain emulation.
This is an ongoing project which combines neuroscience with engineering and computer science. In actuality, brain mapping will take place many decades later, but the possibility of it keeps scientists and researchers on the quest to work more towards it.
Singularitarians
Singularitarians foresee that soon, in around 2045, artificial intelligence and innovation will dominate. For this exchange of power to be useful, conscious and careful steps must be taken. A few researchers accept that one day our lives may even broaden when we converge with technology.
Ray Kurzweil, who works as the director of engineering at Google, is a famous proponent for singularity. He accepts that people will see a day where artificial intelligence would have assumed control over the world. As technology keeps on advancing, Kurzweil says, "the world will change more in 10 years than in 1,000 centuries, and as things proceed and we reach the singularity, the world will change more in a year than in all pre-singularity history. When that occurs, people will achieve immortality."
If somehow humans can reach immortality in the future, the world's dynamics would change, and humankind would have a different set of problems altogether, such as maintaining authority over artificial intelligence. The future is unknown, hopeful, and holds many things in store for the researchers and scientists that they yet have to discover.
Sources:
https://www.alcor.org/library/introdu...
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-t...
https://theweek.com/articles/718516/t...
https://nypost.com/2018/01/06/scienti...
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