I saw a Black Mirror episode ("Be Right Back") kind of tackling this subject matter in which a grieving woman ...

The episode was most likely talking about grief, not robots.

Do YOU consider an AI imitation of someone who already passed as literally them?

A dead brain and some rotten meat is literally the same as a computer application, yes.

Not quite true. Cancer events happen weekly and are countered by the immune system.

This guy is shadowing all my comments and their only contribution is to call me sexist and misogynist. They have a list of trigger terms on mobile goalposts to feign moral superiority.

Please feel free to list the Republicans who opposed the cuts to the NIH and Trump's anti vaccine laws.

I understand you like to shadow all my comments but perhaps your time would better be spent on education.

Using cancer research money to fund a war to bomb Iran is definitely murdering. Grow up.

There are unfortunate people who are a figurative cancer on society. These ant science, anti medicine people are causing death and suffering for thousands. Only death will stop these people.

It's worth noting that your "something else" they're spending on is literally bombs.

Your desperation to be morally superior is outweighing your common sense.

Well, it comes down to what cancer is.

It's malfunctioning cells that are your own.

You go into remission and that means that there is no longer anything detectable.

When it recurs, it isn't the same cells. It's other cells that are now malfunctioning, often in the same way for the same reason.

Recurrence is essentially impossible to prevent unless the original cause is able to be completely eradicated and is something that didn't cause any other changes.

Let's pretend there's a chemical called cancerade. You drink it, you get a tumor in your throat. But, only one tumor, and nothing else changes. You could then kill that tumor and be no more likely to get another cancer than you were before you drank cancerade™

Alas, that isn't how cancers happen. They aren't that simple. Usually, cancerade™ is something that effects the entire system and just happens to cause a tumor or other cancer as a part of its overall damage. So, you kill/remove one, and there's still damage sitting there ready to cause the next one.

Some cancers, you get lucky, and they really only form in one type of cell, and you can generally end up where there won't be recurrence if you remove that type of cell entirely. That's why radical mastectomy essentially does give you 0% recurrence. Which isn't really 100% the case, but it's close enough for government work. Same with testicular cancer, or other similar ones.

The thing is, you can also get cancers in those types of cells from causes that will damage other types. Like radiation. It fucks everything up, so while you might be prone to one type being the first, you don't get a guarantee you'll not have a different kind.

The only way to end up with 0 recurrence is for someone to figure out a way to constantly detect cells as they go wrong and trigger their death individually. Which is what the body already does, it just isn't perfect.

You can't genengineer that. You could get rid of proclivities towards cancers, but it won't fix damaged DNA.

Nanbots? Eh, maybe if they ever actually exist. Right now there's nothing that could reasonably be called that and work in the sci-fi way it would take.

My take is that it isn't hard to permanently cure cancer, it's impossible. Best we can hope for is catching it before it grows.

Lol. He quit the hard stuff. Only has wine on holidays but I think that is just out of family habit. He drinks beer everynight to relax, nothing major. He got bought an expired pickle vodka fifth. You can see floaties in it. He takes a shot every not with his pills followed by a bottle of water. He's been doing it for the past six months. He always says it's nightly reminder that how far he has come and will never go back. So I guess it works for them and I get it. But he asks once in a while (even though he remembers) how was he the night before, it's kind of annoying but at least he keeps himself in check. ...I take that back he also has a glass of champagne on new years and that's it.

Saying someone deserves something is not wishing it upon them, especially when they're driving the cause, but nice job over sympathizing with those cutting funding and doing the literal murdering. 🤦‍♂️

My question is, what has his relationship with drugs and alcohol been like in the last 20 years since he stopped abusing this drug?

Another reason is that cancer is made out of your own cells. There are not two distinct types of cells, yours and cancer. There are different kind of mutations in cells, and if cells get enough of bad mutations, they start to behave like cancer. If you kill too few cells, cancer survives. You kill too many and you kill enough of slightly mutated cells that behave normally that you kill the patient. If you kill just enough, you keep alive some of the cells that are close to cancer but not quite there yet. It's easuer for them to become another cancer than for your average cell. And it's much worse than that. The cancer cells are not all the same, they are very variable. And sone of them are resistant to treatment. While treating camcer, you kill the suceptible cells and give relative advantage to the resistant ones. So by treating cancer, you might be breeding more dangerous cancer versions that will be harder to treat later, if you keep some of the cells alive. And it's very hard to kill all the dangerous cells without also killing the patient.

For the most part, we have been treating cancer the same way for almost a century: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation. That cannot kill all the cancerous cells.

There are cancers 100% eliminated if the host mounts an immune response to the cancerous cells. This is why CAR-T therapy is in intense research. Or rather it was, Trump cut cancer research from 1100 funded projects to just 11 in 2025. For this reason alone every Republican deserves to die of cancer.

You ever tried killing a trumpet vine? That shit will root under a 3 car garage and pop out the other side with a big middle finger.

The brain also contains everything that makes you you. All your memories, experiences, skills, ..., and we are nowhere close to developing a computer that is able to emulate this.

I can't.

But, also no. Not even close.

The path to longevity lies in therapies to stop aging, and reverse it. Making us functionally immortal. The idea that we can transfer our consciousness to some artificial substrate will never happen, because we'll reach the other, much better option first.

Also, there's no way to confirm that the transfer actually transferred the consciousness. We could end up as internally dead perfect simulations that seem complete from the outside. It's not a trivial problem. It wouldn't matter to anyone but you, and you'd be gone, so you couldn't complain.

No.

The vaporized surface material can actually produce a lot of force

Dead is dead. No necromancy I'm afraid, artificial heart or no.

Of course it is possible to repair a malfunctioning heart, if the surgery is performed in time. For this purpose we have pacemakers, bypass surgery, and the like. One could definitely improve the technology, but Mittens really is not coming back from that farm.

I'm kinda confused about the use case here.

Once someone is dead, the window to graft in an artificial heart is waay smaller than the procedure would be. So the only time it would be useful is if the person were already "on the table" so to speak.

Think about it like this. Any situation in which the biological heart in the person would need replacing, the switcheroo needs to be done under bypass. You have to hook everything up to keep blood (and the oxygen it carries) flowing. No bypass = cell death across the body. Once enough cell death occurs, ain't no coming back.

Now, there would be niche cases where you already have the chest open that an artificial heart could be placed, but you'd have to have one just sitting around unused. Which isn't common.

So you can't bring someone back as a resurrection. Like, they're declared dead, you can't just crack the chest and hook the machine up and expect and everything else to function. Not impossible, but the process of death ramps up fast once cells start shutting down, and that takes a matter of minutes in some cases. Just opening up the chest cavity can take 5 to 10 minutes, depending on situation and the people involved. Iirc, just getting things connected for bypass takes a lot of prep, but maybe you could be doing that at the same time as cracking the chest open.

But you'd still need to work faster than the cascade of everything shutting down, and I am dubious in the extreme of that happening outside of an OR where they are already prepped for cardiac surgery.

With all that said, assuming you did get things hooked up before cell death started fucking things up, you could expect a fairly decent amount of time. Days for certain since you'd already be in hospital. Weeks probably, since once you get past the first few days, the major risks post surgery decrease.

Months isn't absurd. Artificial hearts can already give people months, so it's within reason that your hypothetical patient would be able to.

But years? No way. Even with top notch medical care, the added stresses on other organs would be too much for someone in that condition. I just looked up the record for living with a full artificial heart. 555 days.

So I suspect that your brain dead patient would be gone well before that.

It would just be too slow. Brain cells die damn quickly...

Anything harder than air will turn you into a sludge on the pavement. Even water will rip your skin off and break bones.

Soundwaves can be powerful enough to deafen, disorient, knock over, or even kill.

Directing sound potent enough to do this from more than a few few, tho, is kinda hard but they have seen use as anti-riot devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon