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When the degree of accumulated aberrations exceeds the degree of accuracy in regenerative copying, the body ceases to regenerate itself and eventually dies (death is the cessation of autopoiesis -- self-generation, and therefore of cognition/consciousness). The aberration probability, generally speaking, increases gradually as time passes (because the regenerative mechanism itself is subject to the aberration probability), and the body ages steadily. However, the aging process can be greatly prolonged and humanity of the future will be able to live an extremely long life -- probably three to four hundred years very easily -- as the technology to measure and control the aberration probability is developed; and when the probability is controlled to zero, an individual can literally live forever.
There are several different ways to achieve biological immortality. Human cloning is one. One is to recreate electrochemically an individual's entire body, which includes his brain and total information stored therein, by reducing his integrated physical pattern into a set of mathematical equations and measuring the balance and quantity of the 92 chemical components in his body. And then those 92 measured chemical substances would be electrically reconstructed into an exact replica of his body through such technologies as advanced nanotechnology. Finally, his integrated mental pattern would be transferred into his new body electroholographically. The basic method of electrical reconstruction/transference can be applied to such purposes as transporting people to far corners of the universe electrically, or electrotransmitting mathematically equated integrated patterns of living organisms to an earth-like planet somewhere in the universe -- to construct a life-environment on that planet, with the chemical elements available, in order to assure that conscious beings will eventually be present in a crucial location in the universe in keeping the cosmic balance and order of the whole universe.
The purpose of biological immortality, however, is not merely to reconstruct one's body and the information stored therein but to preserve the self, the conscious core of one's being, what Frank R. Wallace calls the sense of I-ness. The self is the metaphysical/epistemological axis within the entire sphere of consciousness in relation to which all the information stored in the brain is structurally integrated. Through self-consciousness, the universe becomes divided into the self and the nonself, and experience begins. (Experience is the complex awareness of self coexisting with all the nonself.) The sense of I-ness sets consciousness in motion. It is the core of consciousness' autopoiesis; it is the autopoiesis. Therefore, the I-ness cannot be reconstructed by any means externally; it can only be transferred to trigger autopoiesis -- and here lies the greatest technological challenge of biological immortality.
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