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This is a terrible argument. There are biological organisms that don't age. And we can design mechanical systems that can be made to run (essentially) eternally
by darawk 8y ago
This is a terrible argument. There are biological organisms that don't age. And we can design mechanical systems that can be made to run (essentially) eternally by swapping out parts. The human body is constantly turning over cells, so there's no intrinsic reason it couldn't have evolved to function this way.
- fhood 8y agoAre there? I disagree with the article, but have we really conclusively found organisms that do not age?
- ozim 8y agoBut if you swap all parts is it still the same mechanical system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- darawk 8y agoIt's a good and interesting question, though probably irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Organ transplant recipients do tend to feel themselves to be the same person, empirically.
- pixl97 8y agoHow many brains have we transplanted?
- darawk 8y agoNever, to my knowledge. It has been done in animals though: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/two-surgeons-in-china-developing-a-method-to-transplant-a-human-head.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/two-surgeons-in-china-develo... And anyway, it's not really the point. There is no reason, in principle, that the brain cannot be repaired in place.