<div dir="ltr">Big dreams, though studying quantum physics isn't necessary to find a way to upload human minds into robot bodies (the ultimate evolution of replacing biological parts with mechanical ones).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 10:06 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px none;list-style:outside none none;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:none 0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"Speaking to Dutch newspaper <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px none;list-style:outside none none;margin:0px;outline:none 0px;padding:0px">De Telegraaf</em>, Simons said: "I don't really care if I'm the youngest...it's all about getting knowledge for me.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px none;list-style:outside none none;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:none 0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"This is the first puzzle piece in my goal of replacing body parts with mechanical parts," Simons said.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px none;list-style:outside none none;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:none 0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"Immortality, that is my goal. I want to be able to replace as many body parts as possible with mechanical parts. I've mapped out a path to get there. You can see it as a big puzzle. Quantum physics—the study of the smallest particles—is the first piece of the puzzle," he said.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px none;list-style:outside none none;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:none 0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"Two things are important in such a study: acquiring knowledge and applying that knowledge. To achieve the second, I want to work with the best professors in the world, look inside their brains and find out how they think," Simons added."</p><div><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/laurent-simons-11-second-youngest-graduate-ever-plans-make-humans-immortal-1607168" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/laurent-simons-11-second-youngest-graduate-ever-plans-make-humans-immortal-1607168</a><br></div></div>
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