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That's 100% on the mark. Infants aren't dying anymore. Real longevity is hard science and we're still at the punch card phase of biology. Wake me up when we c
by echelon 1y ago
That's 100% on the mark. Infants aren't dying anymore.
Real longevity is hard science and we're still at the punch card phase of biology.
Wake me up when we can make headless, full body monoclonal donors for human head transplants. Antigen free / HLA neutral so immunosuppressants are a thing of the past. That'll cure every cancer except brain and blood, cure every other injury, and increase health span of everything but the brain.
The tough problems:
- religious ick and luddite ick
- artificial gestation
- deactivating the brain stem without impacting development
- keeping the body physiologically active and developmentally normative
- head transplants that preserve spinal cord function
- lots of other ancillary issues with changes to pulmonary and immune flux.
- Earw0rm 1y agoWon't happen for broadly the same kind of reasons interstellar travel won't happen. Lab-grown organs is doable, but the brain and spinal column just aren't modular in that way. In-place system renovation and targeted replacement is a more likely way to yield results.