Immortality by transplanting brains into robot bodies.

JONJO THE MISER

I often thought this would some day become a reality, looks like it will be here in the next few decades, get the cheque books out folks.

A Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called 'Avatar' has contacted billionaires to offer them immortality.
Itskov claims he will personally oversee their immortality process, in exchange for an undisclosed fee.
Itskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 30 scientists to reach this goal - and aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years.

Oscorp

If he's partially successful and can keep the brain alive but the robot part fails, we could have a Futurama head-in-a-jar scenario on our hands.

Where To

It wouldn't be worth it imo.

You'll only be alive as long as the Earth/Solar System/Galaxy/Local Group/Universe exists.

Total waste of money, didn't expect a MISER would fall for this one.

crazy cabbage

You couldn't eat if you were a robot. Spending 1000 years without a steak sambo wouldn't be worth it. cough cough not to mention sex cough spluter cough

Simply will not happen

MrStuffins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BKtF1cJug

chin_grin

PENIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmrOXLAFskc

RoundBox11

I don't know why anyone would want to live forever. *insert cheesy line about treating every day like it's your last*

uch

You're nuts

aaronjumper

Become the most powerful being on the planet. Provided you stay away from microwaves, EMP's and stock up on anti virus software.

LH Pathe

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

- and aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years.

obviously hasn't completely lost faith in humanity yet, else he'd get the job done whole lot quicker

we all need to piss on his chips. may cause the occasional short circuit, but it will speed up production.

Wacker The Attacker

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I often thought this would some day become a reality, looks like it will be here in the next few decades, get the cheque books out folks.

A Russian Geordie entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called 'Avatar' Andy Carroll has contacted billionaires to offer them immortality.
Itskov claims he will personally oversee their immortality process, in exchange for an undisclosed fee.
Itskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 30 scientists to reach this goal - and aims to transplant human brain into a robot body within 10 years.

fyp

Logical Fallacy

aaronjumper wrote: »

Become the most powerful being on the planet. Provided you stay away from microwaves, EMP's and stock up on anti virus software.

Just go steady state.

Wacker The Attacker

If you get a robots body can you still shove a cucumber up your arse while ****

aaronjumper

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

If you get a robots body can you still shove a cucumber up your arse while ****

No you have to download the app first.

Wibbs

RoundBox11 wrote: »

I don't know why anyone would want to live forever. *insert cheesy line about treating every day like it's your last*

Maybe not forever, but a few thousand years would be fcuking amazing. :eek: I doubt the brain in robot/jar will be how the "immortality" thang will go though. More likely the old "nanotech" stuff will cyborg us up from the inside. Repair damage, extend telemeres, reverse biological time and all that.

Currently we're living slightly longer in general, well more of us are living longer full stop, before falling off the tree. That said the old three score and ten is still in play to a large degree. Your human body seems to be set to work well up to that point at which time it goes off the boil rapidly for the vast majority and the minority get maybe an extra decade or so of useful life. That seems to be the genetic limit at the moment. Sure medical science keeps people going longer, decades longer in many cases, but the limit is there.

In the really long lived lifestyle doesn't seem to play that much of a part or less than we may expect. EG the oldest person to have ever lived officially, ate a high fat diet and smoked like a chimney for 90 or her 120 odd years. The one consistent thing with really long lived people are their genetic glucose/insulin responses. Basically it seems sugar not fat is the real enemy if you don't have those genes.

TL;DR? Eat less, but better, exercise more to stay limber, have really old ancestors and avoid the risk of lifestyle driven diabetes like the fcuking plague.

chin_grin

RoundBox11 wrote: »

I don't know why anyone would want to live forever. *insert cheesy line about treating every day like it's your last*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs

Dotsie~tmp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading

I think if reality is informational and computable in nature then with great advancement in computing such things may become possible. Also space travel over large distances. You get "uploaded" and transmitted .

The human race would be unrecognisable at such a time. With the mind being liberated from fixed physical attachment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY