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We are not even close to discovering the cure for aging, so worrying about how it will change society is very premature. Until we can get a C eelegans worm to
by IndianAstronaut 12y ago
We are not even close to discovering the cure for aging, so worrying about how it will change society is very premature.
Until we can get a C eelegans worm to live for years, we are not remotely close to stopping aging.
- lars 12y agoI thought the entirety of the C. elegans 302 neuron neural network had been implemented in code. If we're able to implement accurate copies of them, we have effectively made them immortal. Scale this up to human brains, and we are immortal ourselves.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoI suppose in a way that is correct, but I was refeering to getting the actual animal to live for a long time.
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- collyw 12y agoYou are making pretty big assumptions about neural networks and consciousness. When people are in a vegetative state after a bad accident, their brains are still functioning to some extent - but it hardly means they are living / conscious.