/sci/ - Science & Math

>popsci
Stopped reading there.

>>3353065
Whats wrong with popsci exactly?

Bump.

>>3353130
Pic related.

But maybe the articles aren't that shitty. I won't find out because I'm too lazy to read them. Either way, I'm not contributing to your thread, so polite sage.

>>3353185
I lied, I did decide to read the first article. First line:
>California researchers have created a tissue-engineered small-scale small intestine in mice
Comic strip hilariously becomes even more relevant.

>>3353189
While that comic is rather funny, and certainly applicable in many situations, I don't understand why that article would be one of them. There's no claims of immortality, its simply that when looking through all those articles, all of which have been published in the last 2 or so weeks, it seems to implicate that science is developing at a faster and faster rate, especially in medicine. Perhaps I'm just naive, but that doesn't stop me from being excited as fuck.

>>3353051

OP, have you ever heard of Ray Kurzweil? I'm reading his book, The Singularity is Near, and it discusses how our exponential rate of technological progress could mean human immortality in the next fifty years.

Some things he predicts (scientifically and rationally):

- By 2020 the computational capacities of our computers will exceed the computational capacity of the human brain.
- By 2030 the brain will be reverse engineered and we will have true human AI. Also, each year your life expectancy will increase by one year. Nanotechnology will be big by this time too.
- By 2050 the Singularity will happen, which means that we will merge with our technology and become some new level of intelligence that we can't comprehend at this point in time. Boom. Immortality.

inb4 ridiculous personal attacks on Kurzweil, "He's an evil Jew-rat", etc.

>>3353130
Secret club.

That and the media and general is full of twats.

>>3353318
That made me kind of happy toread that. I hope it isn't all false hope.

>>3353335

Yeah it gives me some hope for the future. But you do have to realize that it will all happen so long as the human race gets past this "nuclear adolescence" phase that we're in. Oh, take a look at a film called Transcendent Man. It's about Kurzweil's predictions. Even better, it's on Netflix.

I imagine we will reach such a phase, and some people alive today may see it - but it's easy to underestimate the challenge at hand, who knows what kind of cellular damage someone could accumulate in ~150 years? I imagine it'll go something like this, we solve all the natural causes of death, improve gene therapy a bit, ~2030, add 25 years onto life expectancy, further stem cell and genetic therapy improvements steadily increase survival/quality of life into the 100's, then we'll have neural interfacing with computers to a point where it's feasible to "copy" a mind, and simply give it a new body, effectively leading to immortality, circa 2070 barring unforeseen stupidity, nuclear wars, and/or global economic meltdown.

>>3353385

You also have to understand what it means to reverse engineer the human brain. Once we accomplish this, then soon after we will be able to replicate every sensation in a virtual environment. You wouldn't necessarily need a physical body. And if you wanted your consciousness to occupy a physical body, then said body could be nonbiological and replicate all the intricacies of a biological human body. But I theorize that we are going to find much more satisfaction in a virtual environment that we have control over.

>>3353499
Agreed, I just imagine we won't outgrow the need for corporeal bodies for labor/maintenance for some time, but I agree, that's likely the eventuality