http://attilachordash.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/the-lifestyle-of-the-pimm-future-the-kurzweil-case/ Maximum life extension technology Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:27:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://attilachordash.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/the-lifestyle-of-the-pimm-future-the-kurzweil-case/#comment-562 Wired’s bionic tour over your body « Pimm - Partial immortalization Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:27:42 +0000 https://attilachordash.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/the-lifestyle-of-the-pimm-future-the-kurzweil-case/#comment-562 [...] Bionic in the present sense refers to having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components. The article covers recent bionic projects like Cyberhand the European multidisciplinary hand prosthesis for amputees, and EyeTap, an always-on eye-cam that has been adapted for control via signals sent from the wearer’s occipital lobe. What are the similarities and differences comparing bionic trials to partial immortalization, the eventual stem-cell therapy? First, the pattern of future acceptance: the distance between denial and acceptance could turn as much on what current machines can and can’t do, as it does body image. Second it is interesting to see which needs a more radical body transformation: bionics, electronic devices, Wi-Fi implant in your ears or maximum life extension treatment via regenerative medicine. The similarity is that both treatments could have deep psychological consequences. Both kind of treatments require early adopter style, and self-experimenting skills. Consider the Kurzweil case and the new kind of body awareness 250 supplements/day equals to. Main difference is that in the case of partial immortalization the aim is to maintain body function with the same tools (molecules, cells, tissues, organs) evolution itself uses while in bionics, replacements come from silicon and not from carbon. There is a distinction in the focus of the treatment: pimm is just about feeling yourself indefinitely cool in your present make-up while bionics is into changing your very physical constitution. [...] [...] Bionic in the present sense refers to having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components. The article covers recent bionic projects like Cyberhand the European multidisciplinary hand prosthesis for amputees, and EyeTap, an always-on eye-cam that has been adapted for control via signals sent from the wearer’s occipital lobe. What are the similarities and differences comparing bionic trials to partial immortalization, the eventual stem-cell therapy? First, the pattern of future acceptance: the distance between denial and acceptance could turn as much on what current machines can and can’t do, as it does body image. Second it is interesting to see which needs a more radical body transformation: bionics, electronic devices, Wi-Fi implant in your ears or maximum life extension treatment via regenerative medicine. The similarity is that both treatments could have deep psychological consequences. Both kind of treatments require early adopter style, and self-experimenting skills. Consider the Kurzweil case and the new kind of body awareness 250 supplements/day equals to. Main difference is that in the case of partial immortalization the aim is to maintain body function with the same tools (molecules, cells, tissues, organs) evolution itself uses while in bionics, replacements come from silicon and not from carbon. There is a distinction in the focus of the treatment: pimm is just about feeling yourself indefinitely cool in your present make-up while bionics is into changing your very physical constitution. [...]

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]]> http://attilachordash.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/the-lifestyle-of-the-pimm-future-the-kurzweil-case/#comment-8 Anna Sebastian Mon, 15 May 2006 08:43:29 +0000 https://attilachordash.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/the-lifestyle-of-the-pimm-future-the-kurzweil-case/#comment-8 It does sound quite demanding, and an upside down change in the way we think about less than enthusiatically having to go to the doctor/ dentist etc. In the waiting room you can meet several pensioners who keep discussing their illnesses in lengthy details and using really technical terms related to their bodiliy concerns--and so far that seemed to be something distant, boring and scary. Now the change you are talking about also means that the content of our communication is likely to follow the pattern above, that is we will consider more natural to discuss the fitness/wellness/regeneration titbits of our lives as if it was a weather report. It does sound quite demanding, and an upside down change in the way we think about less than enthusiatically having to go to the doctor/ dentist etc. In the waiting room you can meet several pensioners who keep discussing their illnesses in lengthy details and using really technical terms related to their bodiliy concerns–and so far that seemed to be something distant, boring and scary. Now the change you are talking about also means that the content of our communication is likely to follow the pattern above, that is we will consider more natural to discuss the fitness/wellness/regeneration titbits of our lives as if it was a weather report.

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