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Author is Clay Dillow.

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Russian Mogul’s Plan: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever

[alloysteel]

So we become Daleks? Is this a good thing?

Maybe some of us would make better a B9 “Lost in Space” robot. Then we could go around saying “Danger, Will Robinson!”

Don’t know, just seems kind of soulless.

[EGPWS]

[Bernard Marx]

I remember several science fiction stories from the 1940s and 50s that speculated on the same premise. I don’t recall the titles and authors but “robotic immortality” certainly isn’t a new idea.

[chris37]

What a waste of perfectly good robot bodies that would be.

[dforest]

Sounds freaking exhausting. Besides, my consciousness wants to quit paying taxes and escape the communist utopia.

[dforest]

Sounds freaking exhausting. Besides, my consciousness wants to quit paying taxes and escape the communist utopia.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

With every good comes bad. Do we really need a tech that could keep the Nancy Pelosi creature alive for eons?

[Jim from C-Town]

The drug regimen for a transplant patient is massive. By no means would the brain or even consciousness survive any such radical surgery.

The attempts at immortality are nothing new. The idea of the fountain of youth springs to mind. They are all symptoms of a lack of faith in an afterlife.

What is unfortunate for so many is that their lack of faith in a Heaven will almost certainly lead to an eternity in Hell. Perhaps a little more work on the spiritual aspects of ones nature would be better spent.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

This procedure was known about and talked about at least 70 years ago.. they weren't call robots but. . .

[Defiant]

Do you really think Obamacare would cover this? Maybe for the Politburo, but not for us.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No.

Next question.

[Little Ray]

No.
Next question.

[mountainlion]

This would not be allowed under the pRedidents health system.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Wouldn’t it be better to “upload” your memory every night, adding the day’s experiences, into a storage device, and then load that into a waiting human body that is cloned from your DNA? That way you’d only lose whatever memory you had from the day you “died,” there would be no need for a transplant, and you’d be good to go till the next time you “died!”

[Dead Corpse]

Sign me up...

[ml/nj]

Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to a New Robotic Body?

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: We don't even have the capability to produce a single living cell, despite all the protestations that we understand everything about the chemistry of life.

ML/NJ

[Hot Tabasco]

I have no doubt that someday that will happen.......unfortunately not in my lifetime.

[TBP]

Would you want to stick around forever?