Does that sound familiar? What's the difference between this and the ancient emperors' pursuit of immortality after political stability, not asking about political affairs, seeking Tao with one heart and appointing wizards? It's just that times have changed, and the profession of Taoist here has also become a scientist. Use the so-called scientific basis to realize the magic that sounds unrealistic.
The difference between us ordinary people and billionaires is not just money. Those rich people have been looking for ways to prolong their life, far from 70 or 80 years as most of us imagine, but forever!
For example, peter thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, invested in some medical research startups to find ways to extend life expectancy through their laboratory funds. Ambrosia is one of three companies that study vampire experiments, which transfuse young people's blood into old people's bodies. According to business experts, the current cost of this experiment is about 6000 to 2 15000.
Peter thiel, it is said that he will spend $40,000 every quarter to get fresh blood from young people aged 18.
This blood transfusion experiment has been proved to rejuvenate old mice, but this effect has not been confirmed in humans! At present, there are no positive results in human trials. The US Food and Drug Administration issued a statement saying that the procedure "has no proven clinical benefits" and may be "potentially harmful".
Does this sound familiar? It stands to reason that technology has been improving, but why is our concept always so retro?
Isn't this bloody Mary, the countess in the medieval castle? She has been using fresh virgin blood to keep beautiful, for bathing and drinking.
Scientists have spared no effort in this research! If blood can't make you live forever, what about freezing? Delaying death by cooling the body until the future society has the technology to repair diseases or injuries.
The first person to be frozen in the world was James Falford. He founded his own company with his extraordinary economic mind and joined a national cryonics research after learning that he had cancer.
After he became an experimenter, scientists frozen him and insisted on doing experiments every day. Researchers hope to make this experiment successful and let this person survive successfully, but time flies when researchers try year after year. Decades have passed, and some rich people in America have not been successfully thawed.
In 20 17 years, this kind of frozen human body also appeared in China. After American freezer, the first female freezer appeared in China-Zhan Wenlian. She was diagnosed with cancer before she died.
The main method of freezing people is that after Zhan Wenlian's death, the medical staff drained her blood at the first time, then injected refrigerant, and then put Zhan Wenlian's body in a container filled with liquid nitrogen and preserved it at the ultra-low temperature of MINUS 200 degrees. In this way, Zhan Wenlian became the first 1 female freezer in China in the 20th17th year. Now Zhan Wenlian has been frozen for two years.
The first person who was frozen to death alive was frozen to death in 1967, and none of the people who were frozen to death at low temperature have recovered so far. But over the years, several people have been frozen one after another, or their heads have been cut off for freezing.
According to the data of cryonics service providers, if you just want to freeze your head, you only need 6 1000. If you need to freeze the whole body, you need 152000. Bian Xiao wanted to ask, and his head froze. What's the difference between death and body donation?
You can also choose to freeze your beloved pets together, and calculate the freezing price according to the size of the pets, which is 4000 pounds for cats or dogs and 760 pounds for birds. I can only say that I really don't understand the world of rich people. According to China people's thinking, can't you be born again after you die? Frozen into zombie meat?
If the first two experimental methods are materialism, and we want to continue our own ontology, then the following way sounds more absurd and more appropriate idealism!
Scientists record people's personality consciousness in computers, and turn this record into conscious creatures in some way. It has been something in science fiction for decades, and art comes from life. Scientists are trying to turn this technology into reality.
The foundations of Nectome and Terasem are working hard to turn this record into a fully functional personality. Even if the body dies, you can upload your consciousness to another new carrier and realize eternal life, but it is still too early to draw a conclusion. This process is described as "100% fatal", and we still have a long way to go to turn ourselves into a living computer.
If the human brain is connected with the computer through human-computer interaction or brain-computer interface, people's consciousness can be uploaded to the computer, which can enhance people's cognitive ability in the short term and realize a kind of digital immortality in the long run. As for human limbs, they may eventually merge with machines and clouds, or even be completely replaced by the latter.
Despite this, it is reported that Sam, an Internet billionaire who co-founded the artificial intelligence research company OpenAI with Musk? Altman, who paid a deposit of 7,600 pounds to Nectome, uploaded his consciousness to the mainframe of the laboratory. It is reported that 25 people have paid a deposit for this project.
All the advances in biotechnology and robotics will cost a lot of money for a long time, so only the super-rich can afford it. For us, we must try our best to live an ordinary life. We really don't have the courage to accept such a long life.
American futurist Paul? Sappho predicts that the billionaire class may completely evolve into a single species. "I sometimes wonder if the average life expectancy of the rich can be 20 years longer than that of the poor," he said.
Even a rich man like the gambling king failed to prolong his life by all means.
What Bian Xiao is thinking here is that we spend every day thinking about how to live longer, how not to get old, and worry about the coming diseases and aging. Why not enjoy what we have now? How many emperors in ancient times died young or suddenly because of the pursuit of immortality?
I don't understand this. Of course, this is the gap between me and billionaires!