Posted on 02/08/2023 7:32:41 PM PST by algore
Regardless of the huge strides scientists have made towards reaching the elusive goal, immortality remains a pipedream.
But one researcher in the anti-ageing field believe we could get there — or at least extend human lives beyond the current biological boundaries — without any miracle pill or injection.
Dr Alex Zhavoronkov, head of biotech company Insilico Medicine, says human clones could offer the answer to eternal life.
Theoretically, the sci-fi concept of growing bodies in labs would provide people with 'spare' vital organs when theirs begin to fail in order to extend their life.
Animals — most notably Dolly the sheep in 1996 — have already been cloned as part of scientific experiments to develop genetically modified livestock
However, the idea of human clones — which Dr Zhavoronkov believes will eventually become as accessible as a car or iPhone — is hugely controversial.
This is due to the scientific difficulties, such as a high rate of death and bodily deformities among cloned animals.
There are also ethical concerns about creating a human genetically identical to another person who currently exists, or has previously.
This could conflict with long-standing religious and societal values about human dignity and infringe on the principles of individual freedom, identity and autonomy, according to the US National Human Genome Research Institute.
Others fear the system could be abused by supporters of eugenics
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Would you want to? Only if I could still ph—k.
If this theory became a common practice, only the most wealthy could participate, unless Socialist-type taxes were used to make it available to most. It would be very expensive to pay for long term maintenance and care of your ‘extra body’.
Would the ‘extra body’ be viewable to the owner?
Would that ‘body’ even be encased inside of skin membrane?
It wouldn’t necessarily need to be.
Would children be too traumatized to see their ‘extra bodies’?
Could the owner decide to make some cash by occasionally harvesting certain of their extra organs?
Some people need to be taken out and made an example of ...
Yes. What could go wrong?
I believe a clone would still be a human, who if he was anything like me, would object to having bits harvested from his body.
And God might have issues also.
Personally, I look forward to the day I go home to be with the Lord.
The insanity of the world today makes me do so.
Might? Something tells me He absolutely will.
The ethical conflicts, immorality of it and flat-out "playing God" I'm thinking won't be tolerated by the good Lord.
Just look what he did to Sodom & Gmorrah.
This is one of the projects of Soros, Gates, Schwab and all those others , Clintons?,Albore who would ‘be as gods’ and live forever in their secular city of the gods. That evil bastard Erich From had a lot to do with planting the seeds for this Illuminist-Marxist nightmare. May he burn in hell.
You know they’re already doing human cloning.
I think this “Doctor” is abusing his honorific title as he is apparently unaware of the Hayflick limit.
It’s been known and researched since 1961.
So unless you can replace every cell in your body individual organs will not help you.
The only way this works is to transfer ALL of your memories and consciousness into a new younger body.
Before that becomes possible an intermediate step has to be the ability to record it all.
If it can be recorded many might find a virtual reality preferable to actual life, but how would we then define them, would they still be “Alive”?
How would they pay for their virtual existence?
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/hayflick-limit.htm
Hebrews 9:27
King James Version
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
New body parts won’t keep you from dying in an accident. No one can live forever.
I remember it as a short story, where a clone tried to escape because he didn't want to be spare parts.
“Ok, everybody, out of the pool!”
If they can come up with this kind of technology they should be able to just grow individual organs or regenerate the existing ones.
So there is something else afoot here.
I have a twin sister I have her in my phone as “Spare Parts”
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