When and if human immortality is achieved, all I can say is be prepared for the most massive population reduction effort in history. There will be all-out chaos in the clamor to control this technology, and the most evil, cunning and maniacal minds in the world will compete for it, perhaps until there is only one human left!

So lets say this becomes the norm in 2110.. What happens if a mass virus catches hold of them?

Terminator 3 that's what.

Atleast he's on to something, hes creating what he believes

Forget the brain save my penis

He had better find a way to upload the soul. There's no app for that Let me guess...he doesn't believe the soul exists.

I agree with previous posts about not knowing how memories are stored and even how separate our consciousnesses are from our bodies.

For those who don't believe in life after death, then this would likely be a waste of time anyways.

For those who believe that there is a separate "self" that defines each of us, then we need to determine whether all of that even exists encoded within the matrix/network of the brain. I recall reading about a suggestion that memories might be kept in the glial or supporting cells between the neurons in the brain, or something like that.

But there is the other question of how to truly determine that someone who says that they have all the memories of a person and claims to be that person and exhibits all the mannerisms associated with that person is, in fact, really that person.

I think it may be like the scene in the Avatar movie where the main character used the tree that everyone linked into to transfer himself from his human body into his native blue body. The movie showed his first-person point of view with him closing his eyes being in his old body while it is dying and he sees things getting blurry, then opening his eyes and finding himself inside his new body that can live on the planet without special equipment. That would probably be what someone would experience while being transferred to a machine that could copy and perform all of their brain functions. But how would such a person be able to prove to everyone else that they are really still themselves but in a new "body"? Still, for those of us who would be trying to determine if the machine functioning with all of the characteristics of the person is really that person, or just a machine mimicking that person, we would not be able to say that is really the same person for certain. Or would it be merely like a clone of the person as a distinct entity who has all the original person's memories, but who is a separate person? Think of identical twins who, while being genetic copies of each other, are still distinct individuals who have their own separate identities and do not share each other's consciousness.

That would be a difficult puzzle, trying to determine if a person really transferred to the new brain/body, or if it is just a new entity with memories of the prior person.

Originally posted by iforget
Forget the brain save my penis

Plasticized and sliced into micrometer slides? NO THANK YOU!!

Originally posted by iforget
Forget the brain save my penis

I guess for some this would be the only way to save their brain.