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by nine_k4 hours ago |
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upvoteby justinclift3 hours ago|
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> But I don't see any other feasible way for people whose heads are cryogenically stored to have bodies again, except cloning a new body for them.

As an old (at least decades) concept towards solving this, there could be a translation interface layer between the part of the brainstem still attached to the brain, and the body into which it's going.

Aside from the technical challenges, it'd probably best have its translation vocabulary built from recorded signals of the primary body. ie recordings of actual daily movement, taken prior to surgery

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upvoteby sarchertech3 hours ago|
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> But I don't see any other feasible way for people whose heads are cryogenically stored to have bodies again, except cloning a new body for them.

Well the first step would be to understand how to undo the damage caused by freezing. We’re arguably further away from this than we are from any other part of the process. We might never be able to do this, freezing might just be too lossy.

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upvoteby nine_k3 hours ago|
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I suppose we can postpone this problem for another 100 years.
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upvoteby sarchertech2 hours ago|
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Haha. As far as I’ve heard the frozen head companies have a pretty terrible track record. The odds of them keeping the heads frozen continuously for 100 years are not good.
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upvoteby meindnoch3 hours ago|
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>But I don't see any other feasible way for people whose heads are cryogenically stored to have bodies again, except cloning a new body for them.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jadensadventures/images/0/...

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upvoteby nine_k3 hours ago|
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Go no farther than Futurama! Its very first episode sort of tackles the issue.
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upvoteby rowanG0773 hours ago|
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Reconnection does not look impossible. But it will be extremely hard.

I think what is much more intractable is actually massive amounts of axons you'd need to reconnect, and you'd need extremely good classification to connect the right axons from host body and brain together. I think the only way to do it is to coax the new body/brain combo into self-repair.

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