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As advancements in technology continue at an ever-increasing pace, will there ever come a day when well be able to use science to cheat death? Australian startup company Humai seems to think so; it claims to be working on a way to transfer a persons consciousness into an artificial body after theyve died.
We want to bring you back to life after you die, says Humai CEO Josh Bocanegra on the companys website.
Were using artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to store data of conversational styles, behavioral patterns, thought processes and information about how your body functions from the inside-out. This data will be coded into multiple sensor technologies, which will be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human. Using cloning technology, we will restore the brain as it matures.
In an interview with Australian Popular Science, Bocanegra said: We'll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we're developing. After death, the company will cryogenically freeze members brains until the technology is fully developed, at which point the brains will be implanted into an artificial body.
The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves. As the brain ages we'll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too.
http://www.techspot.com/news/62932-new-startup-aims-transfer-people-consciousness-artificial-bodies.html

longship
(40,416 posts)That's all I will say about this.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)"But..."
"What's the problem, Jeff? You're good to go."
longship
(40,416 posts)Of course, this outfit is likely founded by those singularity kooks, who think everything is going to be magic in 20-30 years.
Ray Kurzweil? Complete kook!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Don't beam me anywhere, Scotty!
longship
(40,416 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Same with teleporters etc..
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)
muriel_volestrangler
(103,003 posts)(since you bring up that meme, and style of dress) - a cousin of my direct ancestor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
At the height of the South Sea mania, people were inventing all kinds of companies for investment, many with obviously ridiculous aims, like perpetual motion. But the best of all was only described as "for carrying-on an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is". And the grifter (not my relative) took in money for one morning, and then fled the country in the afternoon.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZLHTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73
edgineered
(2,101 posts)Deadshot
(384 posts)become a Cyberman!
phylny
(8,673 posts)hedda_foil
(16,621 posts)Basically, they're offering to freeze the pigeons' brains like Walt Disney did, and wait till their apps are perfected. Or not.
Oh, and company executives would have to assign employees to follow the super wealthy clients around for years to "capture" their unique mental attributes and knowledge.
Of course they'd have to know about where the billions are kept and which works of art or antiquities are worth the most on the black market.
Nothing could go wrong for the mark with this con, now could it?
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Urban myths never die.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)pnwmom
(109,719 posts)Ron Green
(9,853 posts)life and death, good living and good dying.
GeorgeGist
(25,477 posts)Suckers will bite.
csziggy
(34,189 posts)As shown in the spin off series Caprica which was set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica got started.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Won't be long before Barbarossa gets around to programming Omnius, then the REAL fun can begin.
Buy shares in Arrakis now!
Or, if Dune isn't your thing, you can consider Eclipse Phase's take on it, where this 'technology' will be used along with the Panopticon (the all-pervasice surveillance system) to (taking light liberty with source material now) to make copies ('forks') of yourself that can be uploaded into worker bodies like these. A permanent worker with no need to eat, breathe, drink, or relax...
Tesla was oh so right.