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Sunday, January 10th, 2010 150 views
The soul transfer depicted in Avatar when the tree of life is mediating the transfer of information from one body to the other is quite similar to the idea of continuing your life (like anĀ uninterrupted record of events) in another (newer, better, more maintainable) body.
One of my old laptops died ...
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009 996 views
It's not about the Schwarzenegger's movie, as a colleague questioned me when he saw me reading the book, although Arnold had another movie coming relatively close to the idea.
It's the book written by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell as part of their MyLifeBits research project at Microsoft. I mentioned a ...
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009 390 views
After artificial limbs, heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, skin, muscle, bone, and promising artificial retina and eyeballs, were heralded in the health news already for several good decades (see msnbc / LiveScience.com article bellow)
Humans 2.0: Replacing the mind and body - Scientists edge closer to building many body parts from scratch ...
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