I hate the idea of freezing, I thinkt he best way would be to find a way to "vitrify" the brain by pumping the room temrature recently deceased brain full of some sort of polymer acrylic that absorbs into the tissues and hardens. Then the brain can be encased in a conventional acrylic and used as a paperweight by your offspring, then when technology improves they can scan the fine structures of your brain and ressurect you, not by using your esiting brain tissue, or something silly like needing nano-tech top ressurect dead brain tissue, but by using it as a "template" to generate an accurate computer model of you they could then "pour" into a robot body that looks like you when you were alive.
So what is needed to make this work?
1. Some sort of plastic like chemical that both acts like aperservative and that infiltrates the brain tissue and will harden quickly and that is stable at room temprature for centuries or longer. It needs to be able to harden and preserve the fine synaptic structures.
2. A scanner than can scan a 3-D map of the brain and convert it into a computer model.
3. A computer that is powerful enough to run a simulation of the model generated in step 2, that can update it naturally (allow new memories to be added to the computer model), but small enough to fit into a robot/android body.
While 2 and 3 is out of reach right now, creating a chemical that can preserve the brain for use as a future template is certainly doable and a lot better than damaging the fine structures of the brain neurons by freezing them then having to maintian a constant temprature a couple hundred degrees below zero.
So why aren;t we using near existing tech to "vitrify brains" for future computer based re-animation?
"Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: Why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired." Cave Johnson
Yet the government subsidizes alternate fuels like bio-diesel and ethanol.
Rough Example: Seems like that for every 10 cents the government spends on subsidies for bio-diesel, they get back the same 10 cents in taxes....
So it is already pretty much a zero-sum gain, or near zero sum gain.
So why go after the small time bio-fuel user that "rolls their own"?
Because they are the government and they hate things they don't control. It isn't about money, it is about control!
If the government wasn't subsidizing bio-fuel and bio-diesel and people were "rolling their own fuel", yeah go after them like the fist of an angry god. But if the government insists on subsidizing it on one end and taxing it on the other and making it a zero-sum game, then it should be fair game.
Can Politicians subsidize electric cars and then whine about wanting to tax them at the same time....
Why not just eliminate the subsidies and the taxes? Seems they just cancel each other out anyways....
I thought the whole idea of an electric cars at least initially was that you would attract people to buy them since gas and gas taxes would be so high the customer would WANT TO go buy a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt. This is why they are subsidized in the first place, so now they are wanting to take the incentive away by adding a mileage tax? Doesn't that discourage the whole idea of wanting to nudge people towards electric cars?
Sometimes I think that all politicians see are the dollar signs in their eyes. They see taxes as money they can use for pet projects and political payoffs so they can buy votes to keep them in power so they can continue to suckle on the teat of the lobbyists.
But since the government is subsidizing the usage of electric cars, why not cut all subsidies for electric cars, then the extra money you normally pour into electric cars can be redirected to roads.
I bey you would get more money for the roads by doing this too.
Our government is dumb enough to both want to subsidize and tax something at the same time, this wastes money in the form of needing to hire more paper pushers to push paper in nice air conditioned government offices. The same money that could be used to pay blue collar workers to actually fix our crumbling infrastructure..
By the government subsidizing the electric cars they are actually subsidizing the destruction of their tax base in form of fuel taxes and then whining about it. Why not cut the subsidies to electric cars, because they want electric cars to save the earth. I think they should eliminate the subsidies for electric cars and wait until electric cars make up over 40% of the total cars on the road and then worry about this. Doing it now will just be political suicide.
If i want to sell my internal Organs after I die, I already have the inherent right to do, it is the government who is infringing already on those rights.
If astronomers tomorrow discovered that the moon orbits 1cm out further than originally measured does the moon cease to exist? In your mind it does....
Do you own your own body? I would imagine you would like to believe that you do. If you think that a woman owns her own body and can do what she would like with it ie. Abortion, then she and any one else with sentience would thereby have the rights to their own body to do with it as they please. This includes selling parts off of it and transferring their property after their deaths, it. posthumous selling of their own internal organs. It isn't a capitalism issue, it is a body ownership issue.
Do you own your own body? Or do you think the "state" is somehow "entitled" to own your own body.
If you think the state owns your body, have fun with that philosophy as the state can now do whatever they want with you.
Do you own your own body? I would imagine you would like to believe that you do. If you think that a woman owns her own body and can do what she would like with it ie. Abortion, then she and any one else with sentience would thereby have the rights to their own body to do with it as they please. This includes selling parts off of it and transferring their property after their deaths, it. posthumous selling of their own internal organs. It isn't a capitalism issue, it is a body ownership issue.
Do you own your own body? Or do you think the "state" is somehow "entitled" to own your own body.
If you think the state owns your body, have fun with that philosophy as the state can now do whatever they want with you.
Why not allow people to sell their organs to help cover the expensive costs of funerals. More old folks would love to sell their internal organs so as to help their loved ones they leave behind not being burdened by having to pay for their funeral.
Since his source code is open sourced, can we remove his Y chromosome and duplicate the X chromosome and clone an army of sexy playboy bunnies off his genetic code?
I wonder what hoops you have to jump through to get that to compile.
All we would need is complete neural map of his brain and way to clone him and imprint that neural map intot he cloned brain and we could essentially duplicate this guy.
Since his "source" would be GPL, does that mean anyone could enslave him after cloning him????
They should throw the book and the bench at Pfc. Bradley Manning and not touch Jullian Assange. Manning was the one who STOLE the information in the first damn place.
This amounts to trying to "kill the messenger" if the messenger was telling everyone about something he heard from from someone who stole the information. It has a bad "chilling effect" and is not good for free speech.
It is like trying to shut down a newspaper that published stolen state secrets, instead of going after the person who stole them in the first place.
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I hate the idea of freezing, I thinkt he best way would be to find a way to "vitrify" the brain by pumping the room temrature recently deceased brain full of some sort of polymer acrylic that absorbs into the tissues and hardens. Then the brain can be encased in a conventional acrylic and used as a paperweight by your offspring, then when technology improves they can scan the fine structures of your brain and ressurect you, not by using your esiting brain tissue, or something silly like needing nano-tech top ressurect dead brain tissue, but by using it as a "template" to generate an accurate computer model of you they could then "pour" into a robot body that looks like you when you were alive.
So what is needed to make this work?
1. Some sort of plastic like chemical that both acts like aperservative and that infiltrates the brain tissue and will harden quickly and that is stable at room temprature for centuries or longer. It needs to be able to harden and preserve the fine synaptic structures.
2. A scanner than can scan a 3-D map of the brain and convert it into a computer model.
3. A computer that is powerful enough to run a simulation of the model generated in step 2, that can update it naturally (allow new memories to be added to the computer model), but small enough to fit into a robot/android body.
While 2 and 3 is out of reach right now, creating a chemical that can preserve the brain for use as a future template is certainly doable and a lot better than damaging the fine structures of the brain neurons by freezing them then having to maintian a constant temprature a couple hundred degrees below zero.
So why aren;t we using near existing tech to "vitrify brains" for future computer based re-animation?
"Why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired." Cave Johnson
"Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: Why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired." Cave Johnson
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Yet the government subsidizes alternate fuels like bio-diesel and ethanol.
Rough Example: Seems like that for every 10 cents the government spends on subsidies for bio-diesel, they get back the same 10 cents in taxes....
So it is already pretty much a zero-sum gain, or near zero sum gain.
So why go after the small time bio-fuel user that "rolls their own"?
Because they are the government and they hate things they don't control. It isn't about money, it is about control!
If the government wasn't subsidizing bio-fuel and bio-diesel and people were "rolling their own fuel", yeah go after them like the fist of an angry god. But if the government insists on subsidizing it on one end and taxing it on the other and making it a zero-sum game, then it should be fair game.
Can Politicians subsidize electric cars and then whine about wanting to tax them at the same time....
Why not just eliminate the subsidies and the taxes? Seems they just cancel each other out anyways....
I thought the whole idea of an electric cars at least initially was that you would attract people to buy them since gas and gas taxes would be so high the customer would WANT TO go buy a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt. This is why they are subsidized in the first place, so now they are wanting to take the incentive away by adding a mileage tax? Doesn't that discourage the whole idea of wanting to nudge people towards electric cars?
Sometimes I think that all politicians see are the dollar signs in their eyes. They see taxes as money they can use for pet projects and political payoffs so they can buy votes to keep them in power so they can continue to suckle on the teat of the lobbyists.
But since the government is subsidizing the usage of electric cars, why not cut all subsidies for electric cars, then the extra money you normally pour into electric cars can be redirected to roads.
I bey you would get more money for the roads by doing this too.
Our government is dumb enough to both want to subsidize and tax something at the same time, this wastes money in the form of needing to hire more paper pushers to push paper in nice air conditioned government offices. The same money that could be used to pay blue collar workers to actually fix our crumbling infrastructure..
By the government subsidizing the electric cars they are actually subsidizing the destruction of their tax base in form of fuel taxes and then whining about it. Why not cut the subsidies to electric cars, because they want electric cars to save the earth. I think they should eliminate the subsidies for electric cars and wait until electric cars make up over 40% of the total cars on the road and then worry about this. Doing it now will just be political suicide.
If you can keep a permanent residence on a celestial body you own a 10km radius around the pressurized areas.
I prefer the "surrogates" style of anonymous sex.
People couldn't be here 13,000 years ago if the world is only 6,000 years old? /sarc
If i want to sell my internal Organs after I die, I already have the inherent right to do, it is the government who is infringing already on those rights.
If astronomers tomorrow discovered that the moon orbits 1cm out further than originally measured does the moon cease to exist? In your mind it does....
Do you own your own body? I would imagine you would like to believe that you do. If you think that a woman owns her own body and can do what she would like with it ie. Abortion, then she and any one else with sentience would thereby have the rights to their own body to do with it as they please. This includes selling parts off of it and transferring their property after their deaths, it. posthumous selling of their own internal organs. It isn't a capitalism issue, it is a body ownership issue.
Do you own your own body? Or do you think the "state" is somehow "entitled" to own your own body.
If you think the state owns your body, have fun with that philosophy as the state can now do whatever they want with you.
Do you own your own body? I would imagine you would like to believe that you do. If you think that a woman owns her own body and can do what she would like with it ie. Abortion, then she and any one else with sentience would thereby have the rights to their own body to do with it as they please. This includes selling parts off of it and transferring their property after their deaths, it. posthumous selling of their own internal organs. It isn't a capitalism issue, it is a body ownership issue.
Do you own your own body? Or do you think the "state" is somehow "entitled" to own your own body.
If you think the state owns your body, have fun with that philosophy as the state can now do whatever they want with you.
Why not allow people to sell their organs to help cover the expensive costs of funerals. More old folks would love to sell their internal organs so as to help their loved ones they leave behind not being burdened by having to pay for their funeral.
Since his source code is open sourced, can we remove his Y chromosome and duplicate the X chromosome and clone an army of sexy playboy bunnies off his genetic code?
I wonder what hoops you have to jump through to get that to compile.
All we would need is complete neural map of his brain and way to clone him and imprint that neural map intot he cloned brain and we could essentially duplicate this guy.
Since his "source" would be GPL, does that mean anyone could enslave him after cloning him????
They should throw the book and the bench at Pfc. Bradley Manning and not touch Jullian Assange. Manning was the one who STOLE the information in the first damn place.
This amounts to trying to "kill the messenger" if the messenger was telling everyone about something he heard from from someone who stole the information. It has a bad "chilling effect" and is not good for free speech.
It is like trying to shut down a newspaper that published stolen state secrets, instead of going after the person who stole them in the first place.
Well there was that one time he was bitten by a rather nasty bug, who knows what that exposed him to....
The fictional character's twitter account isn't necessarily managed by the actor who plays the character.
They were pretty funny... But now I guess the next PS3 commercials will be boring as week old toast...
So it eats flies and mice and craps out energon cubes... I guess we could call it an exterminate-icon....
All Made in Iran.....
(Clang).....
To Paraphrase the first Iranian Astronaut after his retro rockets failed to fire trapping him in orbit for a few extra hours....
For years we have wondered what will happen if machines make life too easy for people will be all end up like idiocracy????
Well this is a perfect example of a Selection Pressure that is re-emerging, we should not try to "Fix it".