Could you keep your brain active after the body died and effectively be immortal?

Question

The body is weak and subject to phsycal breakdown eg arthritis and failure of muscle cells. But is the brain - excusing people with brain defeciencies (no offense intended)? Or could all of someones brain info be digitally copied?

Answer 1

I kind of suspect that there has been work done to keep human brain tissue alive, as has been done with animals, but no one is going to say anything with the stigma attached to that kind of work. With all the research going on, and now having the ability to see the future of nerve repair and nerve tissue regrowth, the future is here. As for putting the living person into hardware/ software or even teleportation, it is my belief that our life as we experience it in our bodies is only attained threw our bodies. You can't change that to energy and load it onto a platform or send it to Andromeda, you would be no more. Even if for a few seconds, all you "Return of the Fly" junkies, you might make a copy, but the source would die, you would die.

Answer 2

Firstly, why would you want to? It good to be alive, but as everyone around you dies and the world turns to cr@p, would you want to be alive and incapable of turning yourself 'off'.

Secondly, the brain and it's cells are prone to illness, problems and breakdown the same as every other cell, so live long enough and eventually alzheimers, cancer, etc. will kick in and you'd die Or be so out of it that 'you' would no longer be there. So, no it's not possible to live forever.

Thirdly, as other people have mentioned, the brain dies and the cells break down very quickly after death, so it would be difficult to do a transplant after death.

Answer 3

The barain can indeed be kept alive for longer. This is a typical experiment, carried out in animals, where the medulla is disected, and the brain is maintained alive to study the effects of certain life-saving drugs.
However, this does not mean inmortality. You need to know human cells are programmed to die, and they don't survive more than 120-130 years in most cases. it doesn't matter how you feed them or how you treat them. An enzyme called "telomerase" just makes them commit suicide...

Answer 4

I think that it can't be done. This is due to the fact the the brain would be suffocated and all circulation to the brain would have seized.

However, in the future, there may be means of possible augmentation by slacker quantized re-generators that could be used to reconstitute the brain from the residue.

Answer 5

The brain only lasts a few seconds after a person dies...like that one guy who blinked a few times after he was decapitated.

and i dont think that with our technology that a brain could be digitally copied not for a few hundred more years per say.

Answer 6

Yes, your brain could float in a glass jar and your eyes could float on the surface of the liquid, gazing up at the ceiling. You could live for thousands of years that way. Wouldn't that be great?

Answer 7

Well it's been proven that a brain could still function for 4 minutes before death, so in a way you can be immortal (for four minutes).

Answer 8

i could choose to be positioned right into a robotic physique, although intercourse with a human could desire to be injurious for them. i could like my innovations helmet to be steel, because of the fact i think of a sparkling you are able to steam up on the interior and get condensation from my innovations warmth and moisture which might do no longer something for my seems.

Answer 9

Ask Ted William's son.

Answer 10

You can only be immortal if your name is Connor McLeod or your really into blueberries