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Can science make us immortal? At a recent Los Angeles screening of director Tarsem Singh\u2019s science fiction thriller Self\/Less, Michael Bonaguidi, assistant professor of stem cell biology & regenerative medicine, and University of Arizona researcher Wolfgang Fink tackled this and other big questions during a panel discussion moderated by KIIS-FM DJ Manny Guevara, known as \u201cManny on the Streetz.\u201d
\nIn theatres July 10, the film follows a wealthy cancer patient (Ben Kingsley) who signs up for an experimental medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into a healthy young donor body (Ryan Reynolds). The procedure, known as \u201cshedding,\u201d has some serious side effects.
\nHere are some highlights from the panel discussion:
\nManny on the Streetz:<\/strong>\u00a0So let me have you guys just explain what you do at your schools and what you guys study.
\nFink:<\/strong>\u00a0So I\u2019m a physicist by training, and I work in two main areas. One is autonomous systems \u2014 basically, making spacecraft robots intelligent so they can conduct their own operations. And the other side is biomedical engineering \u2014 in particular, vision implants for the blind.
\nBonaguidi:<\/strong>\u00a0And what I investigate is how the brain adapts and repairs itself with implications for rejuvenation.
\nManny on the Streetz:<\/strong>\u00a0Now considering your areas of expertise, what might be the biggest challenge to achieving immortality, and can it be overcome in the near future?
\nBonaguidi:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, so for me, immortality is something that is a little science fiction, currently. I would never say never in the future, because there will be people who can imagine things today and tomorrow and beyond that we could only dream about yesterday. And that\u2019s evidenced by a lot of the technology that is commonplace to us, such as portable devices and so forth.
\nFink:<\/strong>\u00a0If at all, I would see immortality coming from the biological sector, if you manage somehow to prevent cell death from happening, or if you extend the lifespan of cells beyond their natural lifespan.
\nManny on the Streetz:<\/strong>\u00a0So in the movie, the character played by Ben Kingsley was able to \u201cshed\u201d \u2014 the term used in the film \u2014 because he had the money to pay for it. Will immortality be something only available to the haves, or can the have nots be immortal, too?
\nBonaguidi:<\/strong>\u00a0Generally, with technologies, they are available to those who have the funds at the onset. And then over time, it becomes more cost-effective and then becomes available to the public. You may have heard about how the genome was sequenced back in the early 2000s. And when this was originally done, it cost millions and millions and millions of dollars. And now it\u2019s a few thousand.
\nFink:<\/strong>\u00a0Not only that. It also took years and years to do it. Now I think you can do it in days or less than that.
\nManny on the Streetz:<\/strong>\u00a0What would be the scientific breakthroughs necessary in order to move down the path towards immortality?
\nBonaguidi:<\/strong>\u00a0So I love that question, and the reason I love that question is because that\u2019s really how science works. It\u2019s a lot of small progress, small progress, small progress, and then, all of a sudden, there\u2019s this big leap forward that happens. So for example, one of the questions that I\u2019m interested in is: if you have new cells that are born into a circuit, how does the circuit actually adapt to these new cells? And that\u2019s one of the stepping stones towards trying to understand \u2014 if you were to then to try to take an entire brain or an entire mind and graft that onto something else \u2014 how would that take? So we\u2019re trying to take some of these small steps to eventually get to slowing aging.
\nFink:<\/strong>\u00a0And I would like to take the abiotic standpoint: not necessarily mapping the mind of somebody onto a system to make them immortal, but basically creating autonomous systems from scratch \u2014 so basically a system that can persist by itself and generate its own thoughts and its own memories and its own actions without human interaction.
\nManny on the Streetz:<\/strong>\u00a0Now one of the scenes in\u00a0Self\/Less<\/em>\u00a0that sticks out is when Matthew Goode\u2019s character, the head of Phoenix Biogenic, says, \u201cImagine what the world would be like if Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs had more time to carry out their work.\u201d Who would you guys like to see carry out their work even longer?
\nBonaguidi:<\/strong>\u00a0For me, I think there\u2019s something that helps the fire burn when we know that there\u2019s a limited clock. And just from my own experience, my parents died when they were young. So when I\u2019m thinking about age, I\u2019m thinking more along some of the questions that maybe 50-, 60- and 70-year-old people are typically asking, but I was asking in my 20s and in my 30s, because I understood the level of finiteness that happens. And so I actually think that that has been at least part of my own motivation to make an impact, to do the science and to realize that you can\u2019t just keep kicking the can down the road. And I do wonder, not just ethically but socially, if people are living for hundreds and hundred and hundreds of years, at what point do we finally grow up?
\nFink:<\/strong>\u00a0I have actually nothing to add. 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