Nanobots and Anti-Senescence
So, you want to live forever.
Other than carbon copying and gene hacking, what choices do you have?
Well, nanobots of course. Everyone goes on about how cool they are, but what do you do when they go haywire? Usually people think you would turn into a gray goop, but we havn't quite reached the testing stage on that one. Most likely whats going to happen is you will have some error copied millions of times, causing cancer, brain damage, etc until the bug is ironed out. What else... nano bots are tiny, and assumed to be pretty intelligent at that point. But how much intelligence can you really fit in something a few molecules across? Much more likely the intelligence would be distributed, or maybe one of your implants would carry a cnc. Who knows yet.
The real point is, what do you do when they mutate? I have not really seen anything about mutation control. The strategies I can think of off the top of my noodle are....
1) Recognition, the nanobot uses its 'selfimage' to determine if another nanobot is the same as it, if it isn't it enlists other nanobots to destroy it. Problem? If one nanobot is capable of building a complete copy of itself, then maybe the mutation graygoos you.
2) Make the nanobots three 'sexes.' Or more. This would require them to come together to reproduce. The nanobots could poll their distributed consciousness and determine what types are needed in what amounts and reproduce accordingly, any errors are ironed out on contact.
3) Don't let them self replicate, meticulously test/scan new ones to prevent problems
4) Let them die, make their battery sources finite and irreplaceable. Make the chemicals recyclable so they body uses them, or they are completely reused.
5) Don't make them too intelligent.
Before we start letting nanobots float around in our blood streams, we should have well defined control strategies in place to prevent them from gray gooing the populace.
Other than carbon copying and gene hacking, what choices do you have?
Well, nanobots of course. Everyone goes on about how cool they are, but what do you do when they go haywire? Usually people think you would turn into a gray goop, but we havn't quite reached the testing stage on that one. Most likely whats going to happen is you will have some error copied millions of times, causing cancer, brain damage, etc until the bug is ironed out. What else... nano bots are tiny, and assumed to be pretty intelligent at that point. But how much intelligence can you really fit in something a few molecules across? Much more likely the intelligence would be distributed, or maybe one of your implants would carry a cnc. Who knows yet.
The real point is, what do you do when they mutate? I have not really seen anything about mutation control. The strategies I can think of off the top of my noodle are....
1) Recognition, the nanobot uses its 'selfimage' to determine if another nanobot is the same as it, if it isn't it enlists other nanobots to destroy it. Problem? If one nanobot is capable of building a complete copy of itself, then maybe the mutation graygoos you.
2) Make the nanobots three 'sexes.' Or more. This would require them to come together to reproduce. The nanobots could poll their distributed consciousness and determine what types are needed in what amounts and reproduce accordingly, any errors are ironed out on contact.
3) Don't let them self replicate, meticulously test/scan new ones to prevent problems
4) Let them die, make their battery sources finite and irreplaceable. Make the chemicals recyclable so they body uses them, or they are completely reused.
5) Don't make them too intelligent.
Before we start letting nanobots float around in our blood streams, we should have well defined control strategies in place to prevent them from gray gooing the populace.
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