For some reason, I’m writing this up around Saturday at 1:47am. These thoughts and ideas won’t be very clear. I’m being up front at the get go. I’m still trying to figure out how I want to run this blog. But let’s chose one topic to stick with today. That topic is:
Immortality
Here me out. I’m not talking about immortality in the conventional way you think of from Hollywood. I’m thinking, immortality with just your brain. Think about how far we’ve come with technology, science, math, and physics. Think about where we will be in another 100 years, 200 years, 100 years. I’m thinking, we’ll get to a point where we’ll be able to do incredible things. What I’m thinking is, sooner or later we’ll be able to bring back someone from the dead.
For example, let’s say someone dies and we cremate them. How would we go about bringing them back to life when we just have ashes? While racking my puny brain, what makes sense in my mind is, we need something of person in order to bring them back to life. Another example – let’s say someone dies, we embalm them, and place them in the ground in a casket. Over time, you’ll decompose and whither away. In the next century or millennium, could we bring this decomposed person back to life. How would we do that? Could we keep or gather enough DNA to try and bring them back? Maybe through some kind of recreation? Because think about it… if we bring someone back with their DNA… that’s just like your parents creating you. While yes it’s you via the DNA, but it won’t be you because you don’t go through the same life experiences.
My thought is, to bring someone back, from the dead, we need the brain intact. People talk about souls. In my non-researched opinion, the soul is in the mind; in the brain. If you have the brain, you could bring that person back. We could take the brain, re-attach it to a new body, and assuming everything connects up properly, why wouldn’t it work? It seems the biggest hurdles would be:
- Conserve a brain for however long until a body is available
- Somehow either create a new body or use one from someone where the brain got destroyed and it’s unable to be repaired.
I wonder if in the future, alongside sperm banks, we’ll have brain banks. Because that’s the other thing. At what point in our lives currently should we decide to remove our head/brain to be conserved? Should we have it stopped at 30 years old? 40? Because what if we wait until we’re 60 and the brain has trauma or other old adages where it’ll cause the brain to not be able to be utilized. At what point should we pause our lives and wait until this is possible?
Maybe if we fix the aging gene, maybe we won’t have to deal with this. But how long until the aging gene is 100% understood and implemented on masses so that you can live forever? because before that, we’d almost have to remove the brain and conserve them until we’re good to re-attach.
The nice thing about having your brain shut off and conserved? By the time you wake up attached to a new body, it’ll feel like an instant. One of my favorite YouTube channels kurzgesagt has a quote: “Close your eyes. Count to one. That’s how long forever feels.” It took a while for that to sink in, but it’s a powerful quote.
These are the wonderful thoughts and ideas that go through my head. Why I wrote this up at 2am doesn’t compute, but there you go. Until next time.