Is it normal i thought of a way to live forever?

When you have an old car you replace the parts. Sometimes you don't always buy a new one you just change the parts. They make artificial organ replacements since its sometimes easier apposed to finding extra body parts. What if they found an efficient way to just periodically replace our parts? If we just update new parts every few years we could just continue living apposed to dying.

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  • bananaface

    Haha, I wondered the same thing when I was about 6!:D

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    • Now you have 6 thumbs up. It must be a good omen.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals

    We are our brains so once the brain degenerates it won't be you if they replace it.

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    • ReoKado

      Good point.

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  • SuperBenzid

    If you had the technology to be biologically inevitable then you would also have the technology to get rid of your biological body entirely and upload your mind to a more durable artificial construct. So in reality this will likely never happen.

    An artificial construct would also be far better for space travel and I imagine that would be a big bonus to a people with that level of technology.

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  • dom180

    I guess that would work. But eventually they'd have to replace your brain, and then would you even be the same person?

    It's also completely possible for a car to crash and be completely written off, so you couldn't live completely forever :P But yes, you could be immune from death by natural causes.

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    • You are talking about being invincible. Which is something completely different. I was talking about immortality. Which is the ability to live forever. No where did I say replacing parts in your body would save you against being in an accident. Dying from old age is another matter. Like a computer we get old our parts stop working and we shut down. However unlike a computer we do not periodically replace our parts. Unless its absolutely necessary.

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  • Maki_P

    He,he. Not a bad idea, but it's more complicated than that. For starters Brain Cells do no regenerate, they just die and that's why old people loose faculties. You can replace the brain without loosing some part of you, so we have a problem there.
    But there's the other thing: Why do you want to live forever? Life is good and all, but part of it's that it's finite

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  • q25t

    We already do that to some extent. As far as current prevailing theories go, our bodies are nearly entirely replaced every few decades by cell death and regeneration excluding certain cells in the brain.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/02cell.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

    ^ Article on the subject you may find interesting.

    This part in particular:

    "About the only pieces of the body that last a lifetime, on present evidence, seem to be the neurons of the cerebral cortex, the inner lens cells of the eye and perhaps the muscle cells of the heart. The inner lens cells form in the embryo and then lapse into such inertness for the rest of their owner's lifetime that they dispense altogether with their nucleus and other cellular organelles.

    But if the body remains so perpetually youthful and vigorous, and so eminently capable of renewing its tissues, why doesn't the regeneration continue forever?

    Some experts believe the root cause is that the DNA accumulates mutations and its information is gradually degraded. Others blame the DNA of the mitochondria, which lack the repair mechanisms available for the chromosomes. A third theory is that the stem cells that are the source of new cells in each tissue eventually grow feeble with age."

    If this all turns out to be true, then a method for improving the transcription and translation processes during cell division should be found if we want to find immortality through a biological means. On the other hand, a mechanized version of humanity would seemingly be considerably simpler. Considering that we already have various means of interacting with the brain in the form of prosthetics, this may not be as complicated as it seems. Given that the neurons that comprise who we essentially are seem to be permanent, immortality could be considerably closer than people seem to think.

    Sorry for the rather long drawn out post. I'm just really interested in this stuff.

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  • Terence_the_viking

    Naah thats ok you can keep your immortality as it stands it's only for the rich and famous.

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  • IIN2?uestionlife

    Because you can only do that for so long...then your C3-PO lol

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  • IDiGAFi

    What about your brain? Would you replace that as well?

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  • soul-man

    Doesn't work that way, unfortunately. I've thought about it before too, except my ideas involved replacing living tissue with robotic parts, creating a sort of cyborg. And yeah, there isn't much out there you could use to replace a brain with.

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  • ReoKado

    Just adapt a brain to a cyborg body and wala you solved all your issues, but now you need to figure out how to transfer a living brain into a computerized one, then figure on how that will control the rest of the cyborg body respectively without burning out. Good luck.

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    • Why do you need to transfer the brain? Why cant you just modify the original body by replacing parts?

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      • ReoKado

        Technical issues of inverting mechanics onto a body and brain can be hazardous and may be too much stress for the body. Inverting all the memory from the brain into a computerized one would make more sense for then your brain would run on a battery and not require food/electrolytes to work. Plus, you can upgrade or modify a computerized body more efficiently in which a regular body you cannot.

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  • AbnormalMind

    isn't it easy to change the whole body than part by part?

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    • Well its cells vs parts.

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  • lampanus

    A: Organ transplants are extremely costly.
    B: How are you going to replace the brain?
    C: Sometimes your body rejects other organs. If it's synthetic then you will HAVE to pay the hefty fee and live forever in debt.

    It's normal to think of ways to live forever, man has been trying to ever since alchemy [the 'original' science] first appeared.
    But you're thinking too simple about the subject. If it was that easy we would all have found a solution by now.

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    • I already said in one of my replies about the organs being rejected. Also that's why they would have to be a cheap way to manufacture the parts or else maybe make the parts long lasting.

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  • dirtybirdy

    No. No thank you.

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    • shuggy-chan

      No Cyborg birdy then?

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    • ReoKado

      Can't blame, plus after 200 or so years I think life for that person will be very bland and, or boring. You'd eventually run out of stuff to do if you were immortal. Also, where's the fun or adrenaline rush if you can't have life endangering scenarios?

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  • watermelonninja

    jajaj... you can die from a car crash, terrorist event, plane crash, massive shooter, falling, choking, dayummmmm....haven't you seen 1000 ways to die?!?!?!

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  • pastaplease

    ur dumb ur not a car

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