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| Sep 29, 2018 at 0:21 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | How unimaginative. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 19:50 | comment | added | SudoSedWinifred | Ciro, I think the point is that if your biotech is at the point where you can design a robot body or other effective brainvat, you have probably had the ability to keep a human body alive indefinitely for some time already. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 9:28 | history | edited | Peter - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2016 at 4:54 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @JohnKeates Well, stroke is a common reason for death or incapacitation in old people. The brain is part of the body and degrades for much the same reasons together with it. If you have medical methods to keep it alive for much longer than the rest of the body, you have medical methods to keep the rest of the body alive as well. In particular, you must keep the blood vessels healthy, whose failure is the major reason people die these days in the US. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 2:38 | comment | added | John Keates | Well, let me put it this way; if you have a situation where you are so advanced you can connect a brain in a box to a robot body that is indistinguishable from a human body, the technology to 'build' a planet is probably there as well. But it's a bit beside the point, which is: yes, brain is a box wil increase life expectancy because a dead body is no longer a reason for a brain to die. The amount of people who die because of a non-working body is probably 100%, whereas perfect bodies without a working brain are a lot more rare in our current world. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 2:34 | comment | added | Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com | @JohnKeates because the planet is way larger? I'm thinking about an actual physical robot body, not a body simulation. But yes, cool simulations will likely come together with brain in a box. Still we might not have enough computational power to simulate a world as interesting as the "real one", which some people might prefer. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 2:31 | comment | added | Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com | @endolith not sure it is a direct implication, but it would definitely help a lot. Still, it is possible that people would still want the "bio brain experience". | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 1:31 | comment | added | John Keates | If you are capable of emulating a body, why not a planet? | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | endolith | @CiroSantilli巴拿馬文件六四事件法轮功 If you can design a brain interface that emulates our body really well, can't you just emulate the brain? | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 21:03 | comment | added | Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com | Personally I don't agree with the comparison: we might be able to make a robot brain interface that emulates our body really well. We can design robots ourselves for that purpose, unlike planets. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 20:29 | history | answered | Peter - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |