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That process is probably a lot harder than you think, if you haven't studied the biological sciences. (Analogy: it's not like refactoring code in a high level
by cstross 14y ago
That process is probably a lot harder than you think, if you haven't studied the biological sciences.
(Analogy: it's not like refactoring code in a high level language, it's like reverse-engineering a heap of spaghetti-coded self-modifying assembly written by a neural network and designed to run simultaneously on several different CPU architectures that have been glommed together in the same box. In other words, it's nightmarishly difficult.)
114 years might suffice to do it. Or to demonstrate that it's a very intractable problem (on the order of Fermat's last theorem) or to prove that it's impossible. Meanwhile, for those of us who are already pushing fifty (like me), it's probably already too late.
- entropy_ 14y agoFermat's last theorem was proven in 1995 though, uber hard, yes, but not intractable :)
- lloeki 14y agoYou missed my point: I'm not saying that from today we have 100+ years to solve the problem, but that once the problem is solved, a given human being biological body will only be a transition.