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Recipe for Immortality

Posted by nmarcel on February 4, 2010

Maybe a basis for a Hollywood movie script:

After reading many (a lot) of diverse and amazing futuristic/sci-fi theories, I can imagine my “recipe for immortality”…

1.- Premises.

– A person is composed by his Body, Mind and Soul (immortal essence which has no proof of real existence, so ignore it if youre agnostic or something alike).

– Mind is the set of electric existing states and ongoing flows that our brain mantains active in its neurons.

– Soul: Suppose that it is implemented via an alter-dimensional set of particles (non detectable in the standard/Einstenian world, but existing at, let’ say, quantum-alike “fuzzy-spectrum” (you know, that level where crazy things happens)).

– Soul is connected to mind from that “fuzzy-spectrum” and we learned to redirect it.

– Time travel is not possible, we cannot change the past, but… maybe we can read it!

– We have super scanners, which can detect the presence/state of any particle or point in the space-time at any given coordinate (x+y+z+t).

– We have super computing power (at Technological-Singularity level) to process enourmous amount of data.

– Genetic engineering and nanotechnoly have evolved so far that it is possible to make physical perfect copies, at molecular scale, of any life form.

2.- Process.

– Select a person who is just previous to die (turn-off his brain, thus lossing its neural state/flows).

– Make a new body (rejuvenated and even improved) to support continuity of the same person via this new chassis.

-Read the state/flow of each neuron of the person. Plus read the Soul assignation from fuzzy-spectrum.

– Then dead happens.

-Reproduce the readed neuron states/flows in the new body. Re-assign the Soul in the fuzzy-spectrum to the new neuron states/flows in the new body.

-Voilá!  Full resurrection achieved.

3.- Considerations.

– If you don’t wait until dead, then this could be used also for making clones of a person (not just the body, but also the mind).

– If soul can be “assigned” to only one mind or simply soul-assignation not happens, then we could have persons with mind, but without soul!.

– If past-time reading is not possible, then only we could back to life (or copy) persons subjected to the scanning process.

– If the universe will collapse someday… then you’ve got only an extended life, not immortality.

Further reading…

Mind Upload, The Singularity, Transhumanism, Multiverse.

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