The idea of potential immortality has led to countless innovations. Within the technical level achieved by each culture immortality is a prominent aspect of their scientific research, their religious mythology and philosophies. It drove the Egyptians to mummify their dead in hopes of resurrection. Of course given the primitive level of their biological scientific understanding, the mummification process makes reviving the Dead impossible. Unless of course they were simply trying to preserve DNA samples. Now truly when we imagine immortality we really mean the survival of our awareness in a durable vehicle such as the body but more invincible.
Incredibly the cellular replicating technology that our bodies already possess is superior to any potential vehicle materials that we currently have access to. We outlive metal machines such as cars. We outlive laptops, desktops and all kinds of computer components. We outlive servers where the internet lives. We need a durable, self repairing vehicle for our consciousness. If you melt plastic it can't grow back. If you break styrofoam it is not going to repair itself.
There are proponents that say the awareness survives death. But those who deal with the paranormal say that while this is true, that without a fleshly body the astral body seems to decay. They also say that the astral body is just another vehicle of awareness. Possession seems to indicate that the grounding in the material world is the desired state for the awareness. I know of individuals seeking to Forge lasting Spiritual Vehicles. Lurianic Qabalism says that you have to Forge the Yechidah, that you are not born with a soul. So if the Soul were just another vehicle, that would be supported by the research of the Biologist Jay Alfred.
Every day our bodies are discarding old cells and creating new ones. Perhaps the future of transhumanism is not in merging with machines that are incapable of cellular self replication, but with gaining a better understanding of how our human bodies are wired. According to the Art of War the soft will overcome the hard. Perhaps it takes a soft vehicle to overcome time. Maybe we are already wetware?
Blessed Awakening :)
Firestorm Coraxo
Below are links to the works of my three favorite Biologist. :)
Biologist Michael Levin wrote a book on the potential of cellular regeneration. It is titled:"The Body Electric." (which makes it hard to find because another more popular book has the same title.)
https://www.google.com/amp/www.popsci.com/amp/body-electrician-whos-rewiring-bodies?client=ms-android-americamovil-us
http://www.sheldrake.org
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Invisible-Bodies-Scientific-Evidence/dp/1412063264
I first read about Levin and Sheldrake in the 1980's. I did not read about Jay Alfred's research until 2011. :)
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