stars are fusion reactions. how the hell does a inanmine object want a human being?
I cant help but wonder if we will ever be able to transfer consciousness from one body to another. If we could just "body swap" in a sense, we could live forever.
Is there no way to achieve immortality?
Why weren't you born as a dinosaur?
The human brain (and brain stem) is responsible for everything... what you think, feel, hear, see, remember, recognize, etc.
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The brain is more like a TV that receives a signal. The TV does not create the broadcast, it just interprets the signal.
To say that the brain is responsible for everything in the human body is like saying that an engine makes a car run. While it may sound true, the engine can't really do anything without the driver, and the brain can also do nothing without the soul.
To switch to another body is no more weird than switching a car.
Warning from the Moderators' community:To say that the brain is responsible for everything in the human body is like saying that an engine makes a car run. While it may sound true, the engine can't really do anything without the driver, and the brain can also do nothing without the soul. To switch to another body is no more weird than switching a car.
The brain isn't enough. You might be able to build an electronic analog that will contain all of a person's thoughts and memories at the moment of death. But our thoughts and actions are also guided by many other factors such as secretions from our endocrine system and our reactions to physical stimuli such as pain and hunger. Not to mention, how much of our personality is shaped by the certainty of death, both of ourselves and our loved ones?Everything else is replaceable except the brain, how long will it be before we learn to move that?
You're talking about telomeres and the telomerase enzyme. This is thought to be closely linked to how long a cell lasts, and pre-programmed death (apoptosis), or cell obsolescence. A "use by" date.little threads on the end of the strands of DNA