[ExI] the gut etc.

[Gadersd]

> That would be truly awesome if it were done.  Even so, you are not uploading in the sense of copying a personality with memories.

One idea is to take someone’s DNA and create a simulated cloned embryo and grow that in a simulation. Perhaps the brain could be put in stasis so that it never produces consciousness but still retains its bodily regulatory functions. Once the body is fully grown the deceased original’s brain information could potentially be “grafted” onto the simulated body’s brain with appropriate modification of the nerves in the simulated body to be compatible with the original brain information. There are many hurdles to this but at least many of the difficult parts such as uploading all the various gut cells is done automatically. I don’t mean to imply that any of this is easy, just that it is theoretically possible. I suspect this will only become practically possible with AGI involvement.

> On Apr 6, 2023, at 6:55 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> That would be truly awesome if it were done.  Even so, you are not uploading in the sense of copying a personality with memories.  bill w
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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 4:43 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
> Israeli researchers grew mouse embryos for about half the gestation period in artificial wombs. This suggests that once we can simulate the sperm and egg cells then we may be able to also simulate a simple artificial womb and generate an entire human inside a computer.
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> ‘Brave New World’ of Embryos Grown Outside the Womb — It's Closer Than You Think • Children's Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org) <https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/embryos-grown-outside-womb-not-far-fetched/>
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>> On Apr 6, 2023, at 5:12 PM, Gadersd <Gadersd at gmail.com <mailto:Gadersd at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> How do you upload a gut and glial cells?
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>> We only need to be able to simulate two cells: the sperm and egg. All the rest is emergent.
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>>> On Apr 6, 2023, at 5:03 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
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>>> Oh, yes, the gut.  CAn't overlook that.  But I never (?) see anything about glial cells.  I have read where lately they have discovered that they do more than just provide support for the neurons (aren't they the blood brain barrier?).  But anyway, they influence neurons in some ways and we are just starting to find out what.  How do you upload a gut and glial cells?  bill w
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