Recent content by lsparrish

Yes, of course. Perhaps over a century, even. The physics allow it. It isn't all that expensive to store tissue cryogenically for a long period of time. A few thousand dollars (usually paid with life insurance) generates the necessary compound interest under conservative assumptions...

Although we have nerves throughout the body, a person's essential personality and memories are thought to be stored more or less completely in the brain. In theory, you could transplant a brain into a new body, and the individual who would awaken would be the one whose brain is used. It would...