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Could this become a strategy for hibernating during deep space travel? Say, we could chill ourselves until it seems we're almost dead and use this type of proce
by wait_a_minute 6y ago
Could this become a strategy for hibernating during deep space travel? Say, we could chill ourselves until it seems we're almost dead and use this type of process for preserving ourselves until we get to the next habitable planet?
- logfromblammo 6y agoOr brains in jars. Build a new body when you get there.
- zipwitch 6y agoThe Whisperer in Darkness By H. P. Lovecraft http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx
- onemoresoop 6y agoWhy not build the whole thing when you get there? And then fill it up with whatetever needed via some form of rapid education
- slfnflctd 6y agoI'm sure that would be considered a viable option if we had the tech, but brain-in-a-jar feels more achievable in the nearer term to me. It also allows for continuity of self/culture, which is important to a lot of people. The idea of infants being raised to adulthood by machinery in unknown conditions to start a new civilization seems more like branching into a different species when you really think it through. I have greatly enjoyed this story line in fiction, but I honestly don't see it as remotely realistic for many, many decades if not centuries. Unless we stumble across the Singularity or something, haha.
- adinb 6y agoConnectome scans—a lot easier to maintain over centuries for interstellar travel.
- andbberger 6y agoIt is incredibly presumptuous to think a connectome scan is even a fraction of the full-state of the brain. We are quite a ways from fully understanding even a single neuron.