{"id":34628,"date":"2017-02-16T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/company-claims-brain-transplants-could-bring-back-the-dead-by-2045"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:55","slug":"company-claims-brain-transplants-could-bring-back-the-dead-by-2045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/company-claims-brain-transplants-could-bring-back-the-dead-by-2045","title":{"rendered":"Company Claims Brain Transplants Could Bring Back the Dead by 2045"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRbErYIUvS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not too shock by this given other transplant patient\u2019s stories of memories, etc.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/company-claims-brain-transplants-could-bring-back-the-dead-by-2045.jpg\" alt=\"1 brains\" width=\"700\" height=\"452\" \/><br \/> There are a lot of outrageous claims being made within the halls of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Whether exaggerations, wishful thinking, the dreams of the egocentric and megalomaniacal to be immortal, or just drumming up funding for a never-ending round of \u201cscientific investigation,\u201d the year 2045 seems to always be cited as a target date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray Kurzweil popularized the notion of The Singularity \u2013 the threshold when computing power would match or exceed the human brain and human biological systems \u2013 in his 2006 book <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/product\/0143037889\/US\/permacultucom-20\/?cart=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology<\/em><\/a>. In that book, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2011\/02\/2045-year-man-becomes-immortal.html\">subsequent articles<\/a>, he theorized that 2045 would be the far end of when we could expect full integration of human and machine that would create immortality.<\/p>\n<p>So far there have been indications that we are indeed proceeding in this direction. Beyond the gadgets we all use to augment our intelligence, each day seems to offer a new medical development that reads more like science fiction than reality. Just the other day there was an article in <em>The Seattle Times<\/em> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/education\/uw-working-on-device-that-could-help-the-paralyzed-move-again\/\">a new type of flexible brain implant<\/a> could enable the paralyzed to walk again. We have robotic prostheses, humanoid robots, artificial human skin, and a range of nanotechnology applications used in medicine and the military that are quickly redefining life and nature itself. In fact, it\u2019s been proclaimed by scientists that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2014\/01\/the-era-of-cyborgs-has-begun.html\">the era of cyborgs has begun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australiannationalreview.com\/company-claims-brain-transplants-bring-dead-2045\/\">http:\/\/www.australiannationalreview.com\/company-claims-brain...dead-2045\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too shock by this given other transplant patient\u2019s stories of memories, etc. There are a lot of outrageous claims being made within the halls of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Whether exaggerations, wishful thinking, the dreams of the egocentric and megalomaniacal to be immortal, or just drumming up funding for a never-ending round of \u201cscientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,269,9,4,47,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension","category-military","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48833,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34628\/revisions\/48833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}