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[bgwowk]

People are less creative due to decline in mental function. Not much we can do on that subjects, brains just weren't made to last forever.

They are not made to last forever, but they could be. Any system made of parts that can be repaired or replaced in-situ can be made indefinitely renewing. Life is such a system. The Earth's biosphere is a proof-of-principle. Note the Imminst slogan: "Research for *Unlimited* Lifespans".

With respect to the subject of this thread, if technology is never developed to make brains and bodies indefinitely renewable, then nobody is ever going to get revived from cryonics. Reversing the damage of the cryopreservation process is a hundred times harder than reversing damage due to aging.

Edited by bgwowk, 22 June 2008 - 06:24 PM.

[VictorBjoerk]

There are many exceptions regarding the brain function! All supercentenarians have pathologies in their different body systems but most not in their brains.If the brain is free from amyloids and other junk causing eg cell loss there is no reason that dementia should occur....
However I wonder what will happen to the memory when living thousands of years,how will it feel,will it be able to handle all accumulated knowledge,memories etc.......Hendrikje Van Andel's 115-year old brain was like a 60-year-olds when autopsied and that is not a great difference from a 20-year-olds..

[Heliotrope]

to shonghow: i wonder that too! I think the brain has enough memory capacity to work for thousands of years, but if we can extend to millions of years in the distant future? Surely the brain is not big enough to that much memory????

[lojzenov]

No it doesn't have that much memory but you will just forget old things..
except if we "upgrade" our brains

[forever freedom]

You really can't change your interests that easily, if you were educated in one field it will take a while to change your field .. Me personally i am interested in many fields and i feel sad that i will never be able to master them all ..

Why all this pessimism?

[lojzenov]

It's realism ..
Ok sure, there is option with cryonics, which is better than nothing but it's a longshot . Well i got plenty years ahead of me, so i hope cryonics will evolve in 70 or 80 years .. I'm pretty sure we will not be able to conquer aging by then. It's a very complex issue and we have to fight against evolution on that one. Our bodies were not made to last..

[VictorBjoerk]

It's realism ..
Ok sure, there is option with cryonics, which is better than nothing but it's a longshot . Well i got plenty years ahead of me, so i hope cryonics will evolve in 70 or 80 years .. I'm pretty sure we will not be able to conquer aging by then. It's a very complex issue and we have to fight against evolution on that one. Our bodies were not made to last..

What do you mean about fighting evolution? It's all about repairing tissue damage on a cellular level......

[lojzenov]

Yes, i know that.

But don't you think we could have evolved in a way that we could live forever? Do you really think evolution "failed"?

[Santos]

...someone knows if some experiments with animals had been done, in wich the animals had been frozen and some time later (months or years) they are defrozen, and survive, and are healthy enoght, specially mind healthy?