That's right, folks...in another fifty-some-odd years, we'll be able to "upgrade" politicians with FUNCTIONAL BRAINS!!! d=O)
YOUR entire body could be swapped out with robot parts as soon as 2070, if a top robotics expert is to be believed. One bionics expert says that we're not far from a future where anyone can buy upgraded body parts that provide superhuman powers.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5484547/robots-body-parts-science-fiction-future/
Implanting the head on a bionic body, means eternal life.
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Just imagine that for a second..."eternal life." You'd never be able to feel any sensation as you can now...and you'd never be considered "human" again, either, despite having all your memories, and having the brain of "the human you once were." Worst of all would be the fact that, knowing that you WERE human, and knowing what you would have then become, you couldn't even say yourself that you were "human" at that point.
And you'd have this problem for eternity.
No. No way to live...maybe just long enough to get revenge on some douchebags that desperately need a good shit kickin', but after that? Definitely no kind of life.
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I wouldn't mind trying such a life in a situation when I have no other options left except Death.
I am not sure about "You'd never be able to feel any sensation as you can now"
Sensations are electric impulses translated in the brain into what we call feeling and sensations.
If science can bring us to a live head with a bionic body, it will probably also bring us to feel and sense trough artificial electric impulses
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I think I'm gonna give you that one. d;o)
When the only option is death, and you've REALLY got things to contribute to society as a whole, then yeah, I can see the benefits MAY, in some cases, outweigh the potential negatives.
Once they find out how to solve the nerve problem, as you say, that really would be the worst part of the problem solved. Even better, as it could then be used to repair people with spinal damage, and in many cases, get people's limbs functional again that way, as well.
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UPVOTED!! Thank you for sharing this idea @electropig. This is actually preetttyyy coool .. in this way, it wouldnt be impossible for disabled people or those who went through accident and had a body part taken from them to be actually have it back . But we must also hope that this advancement wont take anything from humanity. Let's stay human.
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100% agreement there! I'm all for restoring function to damaged arms and legs and stuff like that, or even "bionic replacements" of a certain number of parts that simply wear out prematurely over time...but the idea of becoming some sort of cyborg...well...sorry, but they can tell me how futile resistance is all they want, I'm still not going into their goddamned cube! d=^P
I always had the idea that cloning would be a useful method of regrowing missing or damaged body parts, once the technology was sufficiently understood and tested, as you could theoretically grow exactly what you need to replace what's missing, attach it without any fear of rejection, and "finalize reattachment" by injecting the proper types of stem cells into "the area between old and new" to regenerate the nerves and blood vessels and other connections.
Any way you slice it, it's some seriously interesting stuff...but taken too far, or being done for the wrong reasons, will have it's negative consequences as well.
Time will tell...
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