seeder Posted February 6, 2016 #1 Share Posted February 6, 2016 The key to immortality: Neuroscientists are racing to successfully preserve and reanimate a human brain for a more than $100,000 cash prize Researchers are looking to preserve and bring back a human brain The Brain Preservation Foundation is offering more than $100,000 to any neuroscientist who can accomplish the goal Some scientists say research is still years away from being able to meet the challenge in an effective and inexpensive way Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3435244/The-key-immortality-Scientists-racing-successfully-preserve-reanimate-human-brain-100-000-cash-prize.html#ixzz3zQg7q5kg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bubblykiss Posted February 6, 2016 Popular Post #2 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Can you imagine the living hell that it would be to be a mind locked away in a box without body, sight, taste, smell, touch or anything just you and your endless thoughts of loneliness drifting through the celestial nothingness of an unseeing reality, not even knowing if other people exist still, if you are in some sort of limbo or imprisoned in the vast hellish imagination of some demonic entity that enfolds your shell of a being on all sides denying you the release of death all while never explaining what is happening to you. Let the dead stay dead. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros of Skaro Posted February 7, 2016 #3 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Live long and relish feeding time. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted February 8, 2016 #4 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I would be willing to donate my brain (after death) for this cause. Just hope they can't tap into my memory banks. ICKY... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted February 8, 2016 #5 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Maybe the guy that's going to do the head, or is it a body transplant, will tackle this next. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regeneratia Posted February 8, 2016 #6 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) I don't think they should pick a brain from someone who has no ethical, compassionate and empathetic inclinations. There should be a rule that only brains that have dedicated it's entire thought to honest and true, unselfish thoughts and acts toward the betterment of humanity, one who have no responsiblity or incriminations towards the death of anyone whatsoever ... should be revived. Don't revive a control monger, a member of secret governments and anyone who has harmed another human being in whatever manner. JACK THE BODILESS, Julian May (I believe, without looking). Good book. Edited February 8, 2016 by regeneratia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted February 8, 2016 Author #7 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I don't think they should pick a brain from someone who has no ethical, compassionate and empathetic inclinations. There should be a rule that only brains that have dedicated it's entire thought to honest and true, unselfish thoughts and acts toward the betterment of humanity, one who have no responsiblity or incriminations towards the death of anyone whatsoever ... should be revived. Don't revive a control monger, a member of secret governments and anyone who has harmed another human being in whatever manner. JACK THE BODILESS unfortunately, things like this will be available to those who have the money....or who is deemed important for whatever reason 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regeneratia Posted February 8, 2016 #8 Share Posted February 8, 2016 unfortunately, things like this will be available to those who have the money....or who is deemed important for whatever reason Sometimes, but rarely, a scientist has ethics. I happen to have married one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted February 8, 2016 Author #9 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) Good money...Im in... now where do I get a fresh brain? Edited February 8, 2016 by seeder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted February 8, 2016 #10 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Have they tried a couple of Vivarin tablets and a double espresso? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unicronz Posted February 8, 2016 #11 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have thought of this many times before, but I'm not too sure if it's such a good idea. If a different brain is transplanted into a dead body, it won't be the dead persons brain, it will be someone else's brain in a dead body. Could you imagine waking up in a decaying body? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted February 8, 2016 #12 Share Posted February 8, 2016 It would seem that "reanimation" of dead tissues would be an effort far more complex than, say, reanimation of a tissues "frozen alive" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin Posted February 9, 2016 #13 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Holy crap, I rarely post but had to on this one So let me get this straight... we're giving millions to pointless celebrities for flashing their butts and muttering some idiocy or sports people for running around a small field... But for something with that much ground breaking potential we're offering measly 100k?!?! For a research that itself can cost multiple times that much?! ...even double facepalm can't explain how I feel 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan max2 Posted February 9, 2016 #14 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Holy crap, I rarely post but had to on this one So let me get this straight... we're giving millions to pointless celebrities for flashing their butts and muttering some idiocy or sports people for running around a small field... But for something with that much ground breaking potential we're offering measly 100k?!?! For a research that itself can cost multiple times that much?! ...even double facepalm can't explain how I feel Just goes to show that people care about entertainment above all else 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdesert50 Posted February 9, 2016 #15 Share Posted February 9, 2016 To isolate a brain from body is to ignore an eon of evolution focused upon refining that connection. To isolate a brain from its body is to ignore a lifetime focused upon developing a neural network for defining, understanding, and interacting with the world. The trauma associated with such an insult would likely result in undefined and potentially insurmountable mental disorders. I find the blatant lack of empathy appalling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccr8 Posted February 9, 2016 #16 Share Posted February 9, 2016 (edited) So,one would have to keep their own brain alive 100 yrs to collect the 100,000.00 ? jmccr8 Edited February 9, 2016 by jmccr8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted February 9, 2016 #17 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Can you imagine the living hell that it would be to be a mind locked away in a box without body, sight, taste, smell, touch or anything just you and your endless thoughts of loneliness drifting through the celestial nothingness of an unseeing reality, not even knowing if other people exist still, if you are in some sort of limbo or imprisoned in the vast hellish imagination of some demonic entity that enfolds your shell of a being on all sides denying you the release of death all while never explaining what is happening to you. Let the dead stay dead. LINK - Can You Live Forever(2012) - Adam Savage as the 1,000 year old man. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted February 9, 2016 #18 Share Posted February 9, 2016 To isolate a brain from body is to ignore an eon of evolution focused upon refining that connection. To isolate a brain from its body is to ignore a lifetime focused upon developing a neural network for defining, understanding, and interacting with the world. The trauma associated with such an insult would likely result in undefined and potentially insurmountable mental disorders. I find the blatant lack of empathy appalling. You could say the same about the development of heart surgery and even the artificial heart. People suffered to bring about what we can do now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBeliever Posted February 9, 2016 #19 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Even if successful will they commercialize it?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted February 9, 2016 #20 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I think they are going to find, there is more to it than just the brain, but the whole nervous system. I was watching The Brain with David Eagleman on PBS and in one episode they talked about finding the memory is stored in nerves throughout the body. What is a person without memory, not much I would think. I have had friends who have lived their lives as heads on a pillow. People who have lost full function and from what I have seen I, it looks like living hell. I can't imagine living like Stephen Hawking does. Nope, not me, use a shotgun, scramble my brain real good. I am not coming back, thanks. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevemagegod Posted February 9, 2016 #21 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Ya pretty sure this will get people into a whole bunch of legal trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorvir Posted February 10, 2016 #22 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I remember once when this sort of thing went poorly... Got to be very careful nowadays. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joonmoon999 Posted February 10, 2016 #23 Share Posted February 10, 2016 People are getting pervert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorvir Posted February 10, 2016 #24 Share Posted February 10, 2016 People are getting pervert. How so? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted February 11, 2016 #25 Share Posted February 11, 2016 People are getting pervert. Have you got a pervert? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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