Remedy slides 7 30 a draft
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The document discusses the possibility of radically extending the human lifespan and combating death through emerging biomedical technologies. It references a science fiction story called "A Remedy for Death" that imagines being able to transfer one's consciousness into a new, youthful body using a combination of stem cell research, organ regeneration techniques, and other cutting-edge areas of science. While some view uploading the mind into a computer as an option for immortality, the story argues people would prefer to live on in a healthy biological form. It outlines real-world scientific advances in areas like growing brain and heart tissues, reprogramming dead cells into stem cells, and grafting human neurons into primate brains that could potentially help make such an outcome a
![[A] paper just published in the
journal Nature has shown that it is
possible to sustain a rudimentary
brain in a vat. It has also
demonstrated that it is possible to
synthesize one, from scratchor
from a lattice of stem cells, at least. .
. . The cerebral organoids that
researchers were able to produce are
akin to the neural precursors that
you would find in an embryo, nine
weeks or so after conception. They
are not yet wired up; theyve not had
any experience; they have no
thoughts, no ideas, no emotions.
They are, at best, brains-in-training,
and nothing that anyone would
mistake for real brains.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/remedyslides7-30adraft-140730123141-phpapp02/85/Remedy-slides-7-30-a-draft-27-320.jpg)
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Remedy slides 7 30 a draft
- 1. Its said that we only go around once in life.
- 2. Its said that we only go around once in life. But what if?
- 3. IS there? CAN there be . . .
- 4. IS there? CAN there be . . . A Remedy For Death?
- 5. What a caterpillar calls death
- 6. We call a butterfly!
- 7. Billionaire Parsons Couldsen on why he set up the Hauenfelder Clinic: After my first heart attack, I woke up and saw this bearded old guy stinking of fish. Im Saint Peter, he says to me, and then goes on: Dont you know that you cant take it with you when you meet death? Cant take it with me! The hell with that! I told him. If I cant take it with me, then Ill stay with it! Hell no, I wont go!
- 8. Is that possible? Is it possible for humans to live on and on . . . . . . or even to live again?
- 9. The Smart Money is now investing in radical life extension Click on article for more info
- 10. And . . . Click on articles for more info
- 11. But theres a problem with that approach: Click on article for more info
- 12. The problem? If you could live on, way beyond your normal lifespan, that is . . . If you (whatever makes you you) could live on after your body has given up the ghost (so to speak!). . . Would you really want to live on in a memory stick, or even in a big main- frame computer memory?
- 13. Whats that you say? You say you really wouldnt care to live on locked in a computers memory?
- 14. There may be a better way:
- 16. Again, Parsons Couldsen on why he first funded the Hauenfelder Clinic: What weve built here is a Jurassic Park for rich old guys like us who want to come back into healthy, horny 21-year old bodies complete with all our accumulated savvy from this lifetime.
- 17. I think most of would agree with (the fictional) Mr. Couldsen: Wed rather come back into a fresh young body thats healthy and horny and 21 and holding all this present lifetimes savvy. Doesnt that sound a lot better than being trapped in a computer memory?
- 18. But do we have that choice? The science technothriller, A REMEDY FOR DEATH, suggests how that can be done . . . a way building from todays real-world science, though with the elements put together in unique ways. Here are a fewjust a few elements of that research, drawn from the books blog www.A-Remedy-for-Death.com. Is it possible? You be the judge.
- 19. London Economist: Forever young? Click on article for more info
- 21. From a three-part series in the Wall Street Journal Click here for more info
- 22. From a three-part series in the New York Times Click on the article for more info
- 23. How 3-D printers are building bits and pieces of us from living tissue
- 24. Saving lives with help from pigs and human stem cells Dr. Doris Taylor, Director of Regenerative Medicine Research at Texas Heart Institute, holds a pig heart from which the pigs cells have been removed. (Whole organ decellularization.) It is to be used as a scaffold or framework to be repopulated with human stem cells. The object is to create a revitalized human heart. Photo: Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle
- 26. Human fetal stem cells successfully grafted into chimp brains Brain cells that die off in Parkinson's disease have been grown from stem cells and grafted into monkeys' brains in a major step towards new treatments for the condition. US researchers say they have overcome previous difficulties in coaxing human embryonic stem cells to become the neurons killed by the disease. Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys. The breakthrough raises the prospect of transplanting freshly grown dopamine-producing cells into human patients to treat the disease
- 27. [A] paper just published in the journal Nature has shown that it is possible to sustain a rudimentary brain in a vat. It has also demonstrated that it is possible to synthesize one, from scratchor from a lattice of stem cells, at least. . . . The cerebral organoids that researchers were able to produce are akin to the neural precursors that you would find in an embryo, nine weeks or so after conception. They are not yet wired up; theyve not had any experience; they have no thoughts, no ideas, no emotions. They are, at best, brains-in-training, and nothing that anyone would mistake for real brains.
- 28. If at first you die, try, try again! Death will come for us all one day, but life will not fade from our bodies all at once. After our lungs stop breathing, our hearts stop beating, our minds stop racing, our bodies cool, and long after our vital signs cease, little pockets of cells can live for days, even weeks. Now scientists have harvested such cells from the scalps and brain linings of human corpses and reprogrammed them into stem cells. In other words, dead people can yield living cells that can be converted into any cell or tissue in the body.
- 29. But what about the ethics?
- 30. This infographic was adapted from the research for the science technothriller, A Remedy for Death by Michael McGaulley To order A Remedy for Death as an e-book or p-book To visit the blog www.A-Remedy-for-Death.com