Achieving immortality?

[Jake.Ashworth]

Our teeth where made to cut flesh.

[MichaelMyers]

Originally Posted by Jake.Ashworth

Don't listen to your vegan friends. Paleo is the way to go. Stay the course! Our bodies where designed to operate a very specific way and meat is 100% a huge part of that. The bacteria in your stomach is needed to keep your system healthy. I beg of you, don't go vegan, its not how you where designed.

Yes they seem to cut a weak and sickly looking figure anyway. Definitely wouldn't go wendigo-hunting with them.

[Jake.Ashworth]

Hell no! For more than one reason, you would be the most tasty looking there.

Back on topic, I don't think we will be allowed to reach immortality. As much as there are all of these things popping up that makes it possible, I don't think whatever you believe in, God, Nature, Allah, Flying Spaghetti Monster, will allow us to get that far. As far as I am concerned, we are only allotted so much time to make a mark on the world, if you cant in your time then you wasted it.

[Angra]

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

You've been around here awhile, Angra....a good while....and never seem to age. You appear mighty nervous.

Shhh... Just between you and I. I'm a vimpire.

Don't tell anyone.

[The Bloofer Lady]

Originally Posted by anglewitch

I will never seek for immortality. Death is welcome in my home. If death comes knocking at my door I will let him in.

Sweetie, you are too young to welcome death. Immortality..no...but you're good for another wonderful 70 years I hope. At 57, I hope for another 25 or so.

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

Just got back from the health store. I figure I must maintain optimal health until science advances (or secrets are leaked). I bought some Resveratrol, Colloidal Gold, Spirilina, Fish Oil, L-Theanine to take along with my regular multivitamin. Also thinking about tweaking my diet. I have followed paleo plan for many years but my vegan friends say that bacteria and cancers thrive on the putrified meat in our stomachs. Always sounded bogus to me but I dunno.

Michael, I am not a vegan by any stretch but I often feel we can "eat" an animal's sickness or cancer.

Originally Posted by Angra

Shhh... Just between you and I. I'm a vimpire.

Don't tell anyone.

Remember when you thought you were a god too? What's the story, Morning Glory? Is this a cry for help?

[MichaelMyers]

Interesting Bloofer, and true.. That is how mad cow happened, you know.

[Angra]

Originally Posted by The Bloofer Lady

Remember when you thought you were a god too? What's the story, Morning Glory? Is this a cry for help?

You'd really like that, huh? Me being an insecure crybaby? Yea... That'll happen.

[The Bloofer Lady]

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

Interesting Bloofer, and true.. That is how mad cow happened, you know.

Mad Cow was horrible right down to the ground. What other diseases could we be eating? Mind you, I love a good roast beef dinner!

Originally Posted by Angra

You'd really like that, huh? Me being an insecure crybaby? Yea... That'll happen.

I'd expect nothing less..

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

Exhibit A: Turritopsis Nutricula AKA the "Immortal Jellyfish." When in stress or injured it can reverse its current age to a younger age and start aging again.

What does that even mean, Michael: "it can reverse its current age to a younger age and start aging again"?

Whoever reported, or published, this research, how is age being defined & determined, and how is "reverse its current age to a younger age" being defined & determined?

If that just means an acceleration in free radical elimination, or a slowing in replacement of cells, I most decidedly would not define that as "reversing its current age".

Also if injured jelly fish... live longer, or regains the ability to mate again (or however they are defining 'younger age'), I wouldn't call that "reversing to a younger age".

My current understanding is aging is in the genes, and not in wear-and-tear... which seems obvious now that we know humans replace every cell in the body every seven years, and the fact that life spans among different species of similar sizes and forms have drastically different lifespans. It's never been announced an aging gene has been found, let along understood, so I highly doubt actual reverse aging can be determined in jellyfish.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by Jake.Ashworth

They also can download your consciousness into a computer now. It's only been done once so far, but they can take your mind and put it into a computer, technically making your consciousness live forever.

Hi Jake! Can you cite (give a link) to that source?

I would be willing to bet $1000 a human consciousness has not been downloaded to a computer.

The technical functioning of consciousness in the brain is not yet understood (from the lastest TED Talks, & other, research). So such a claim sounds ridiculous. There are approximately 100 billion neurons in a human brain. Each neuron has up to 10,000 synapses (connecting lines) to other neurons. Which means there's as many as 1,000 trillion synaptic connections. Ironically, that being said, computer harddrive space and processing speed aren't the issue -- if one were able to construct a computer, and pseudo-duplicate an individual's brain structure, how would one get it to initiate its own motion (thoughts consciousness)?

In regards to "consciousness", I guess that's dependent on just how loosely someone wants to define 'consciousness'. If any engineer had the nuts to announce such a claim (a human consciousness has been downloaded to a computer), I'd love to see how they define it. It might not be what we call consciousness.