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I assume by information you’re referring to DNA? If so we can already sequence human DNA from all sorts of samples (so for example we store a copy of it from a
by speedylight 3y ago
I assume by information you’re referring to DNA? If so we can already sequence human DNA from all sorts of samples (so for example we store a copy of it from a young age, like 20), the hard part would be replacing the damaged DNA with the undamaged copy, in every cell of the body—sort of like reinstalling an operating system.
It’s interesting to think about the implications of such a technology, if we can swap DNA with another, fresher copy, we should also be able to modify it and make the body do things it wasn’t previously capable of doing. One idea that comes to mind is expanding the range of our senses, or giving our body a better system to repair and regenerate itself beyond what we naturally evolved to able to do so we can have longer life spans with a quality of life that makes it worth it.
It sounds like a bad idea to play god like this, and it probably is, but we’ll never know until we give it a serious try. I remember a while ago a scientist in China modified the DNA of human embryos by using Crispr, the goal was to make them resistant to HIV infection and he was jailed and ridiculed for it.
The search space for new and improved capabilities is endless once we learn how to program DNA like a computer. We are probably at least a century away from this level of control, and probably another century before it becomes socially acceptable to do it at scale.