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RE: A new research paper finds that naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) don’t have biological age like most other other organisms do! Could they be biologically immortal?

in #science7 years ago

Hey, @xabi! It's important to keep in mind that biological immortality is very different from how we often see immortality portrayed in science fiction. Biological immortality just let old individuals not be at a higher risk of dying than at their peak. For a human this would mean that a 100 year old has no higher mortality rate than a 30 year old :)

I think it might be a goose chase to try to achieve either types of immortality for humans, unless we consider recreating an AI of one's brain to be immortality.

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Cloning ones body and thaughts is an option.
Can we keep someone's brain alive and working even after the body dies.

Yep, that's true. I think that at one point the body will be holding us back from living for a much longer time, so at this point we need to keep the brain/conscious seperated from it if we are trying to achieve immortality.