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Or brains in jars. Build a new body when you get there.
by logfromblammo 6y ago
Or 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.