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Top 10 Artificial Technologies Ready to Create a Real Human Being

scienceahead.com — The pace, at which, scientists are doing experiments with the artificial body parts, somehow it seems like we would be able to create a real human being very soon in the near future.

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  • Nebuchandnezzar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Of course, this shows how well we’re now able to understand the human body and life makeup in real sense, however, the more important factor it reflects is that the quest of becoming immortal is ON.
    • Absinthminded64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Oh c'mon. . We've had technologies to create a Real Human Being for thousands of years!
    • briantech, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8Screw immortality... I'm just waiting for them to make an artificial vagina.
    • revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@briantech

      Wait has been over for while.
    • coolian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Ok, so where's the artificial soul?
    • SomaSynth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"the quest of becoming immortal is ON."

      It's been on since the beginning of civilization. Would you like some mercury with your salad?
    • NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the quest of becoming immortal is ON
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      That would probably require in-vivo regeneration. You can't replace the brain. Well, you probably could but you wouldn't be particularly happy with the results.
    • Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3briantech: fleshlight.com dude. They're already on it.
    • vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Actually, contrary to popular belief, brain cells DO actually regrow.

      In fact, the cells in your brain eventually are completely new over the cycle of a decade. So the material in your brain now is not what it was 10 years ago. (So what requires consciousnesses anyways?)

      That said, it is unknown how much you can replace outright and still have consciousness in a sense.
    • sum1randum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In the end there can be only one.
    • mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2edit: forget it
    • acdcfanbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Screw building humans, I want to be a cyborg!
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Screw cyborgs! I want a legion of brain-hungry zombies!
    • Arkz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Bring on the Fembots!
  • DrScott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Call Dr. Frankenstein!
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's alive.... it's aliiiiiiiiiiive!
      Those guys with pitch forks and torches? They're not mad that the monster went on a kill crazy rampage. They're Christian fundamentalists.
    • acdcfanbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's Fronk-en-steen!
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What hump?
  • j4son, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Did anyone else notice the rotating table of poop in the section containing the artificial stomach?
    • turrican, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That artificial human takes some serious dumps! Look at those logs!
    • specialK16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looked like sausage to me...

      damn!
    • lokoluis15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's a scientific breakthrough! We've finally made......a pooping machine?
  • TheClanNet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Certainly great stuff, but isn't this list incomplete without the most important organ, the brain?
  • bmson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I want my own Super baby.
  • playthev, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1In soviet russia..... ok ok i wont...
    but seriously I cannot see a human produced entirely artificially for atleast quite a few decades, anyone who has studied the human body in detail would know that the incredible interrelationships that occur in the body are going to be very hard to simulate
  • mojoel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Someone didn't pay attention during sex ed. I can tell you what technology is needed to create a 'real human being' without reading the article.
    • Zaggynl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My idea.

      If this really works, I can finally have my third arm for ahem..scratching!
  • maximous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i do not know, I'm sure they could create an robot....but not a human, being human requires a brain that can process on its own, make its own decisions, feel, without a brain all you have is a robot that is programed.
    • InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Create an robot? That's preposterous!
  • airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish my blood were white.
  • Cerialthriller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6please dont give women more reasons not to ***** me! for christ's sake!
  • CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Everyone to action stations!
    The Cylons are coming.
    • ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As long as they look like Six or Sharon then I have no problem with that. Come on, all they want is love. Hot, hot cylon love, gotta get me some of that.
  • zbarnett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6All this won't be happening for a while. If you go a little more than halfway down the page it says "Back in >>>>19996"
  • kingofthegreens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it didn't list fake boobs, asses, or lips...buried as inaccurate :-/
  • InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even if it will be possible to put our brains in an artificial body, it sucks that they'll only be 5 feet tall.
  • toxicshok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seems like in the future, it you're rich enough and you're brain survives the car accident, natural death, assassination attempt, or car bomb you can live forever with artificial body parts. Raises the question, when do you stop being a human. When you're body has a warranty?
  • Cyberen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I personally think this is a terrible idea. Guess who will have access to the technology first? Rich people. Powerful people. People who would want to keep their power FOREVER. People need to die so change occurs.
  • Idolwild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The artificial blood vessels kinda put me off - I was gonna have salmon tonight too. Yuck.
  • Popninety, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Back in 19996,..."

    ah those were the days
  • Ganchula, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Perhaps these artificial humans will be able to write English sentences - without extra commas, missing words, and redundant phrases - very soon AND in the near future!

    I guess this is what we get from No Child Left Behind.
  • Salius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hopefully, if we get lucky, they'll also make artificial Diggers who read the complete article and aren't shooting their mouths off for the sake of leaving a comment.
  • jun2san, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yumm.....right underneath where it says artificial blood vessel, it looks like salmon sushi.
    • confusednazgul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thought that.
  • Hetman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is great. It wont be long before we dont even need women anymore.
  • loquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More Human Than Human!
  • OldRick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Unfortunately, none of the technologies mentioned are anywhere near being actually usable, and there is a decades-long development cycle between laboratory and common use, even for those few new technologies that actually work.

    Further, as anyone with artificial parts (like my replacement knee) can testify, none of this stuff, even simple prosthetics, works nearly as well as original parts...
  • Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2While we're at it why do we have to reconstruct all the body parts? I mean if you accurately simulate a brain then you made the first artificial human being. It's most possible that the first artificial (kinda) human being would be software and not hardware. If you want him/her to have a physical presence then why should you or anyone else limit it to the evolved (with all it's deficiencies and inefficiencies) biology, since you are sophisticated enough to simulate a brain reconstructing a ten times better body would be a piece of cake, no messy liquids (blood), heart and entrails, after all these are just the means which keep the brain (us) motivated and energized they are insignificant before a better mechanism....

    Simulate a brain and then we talk until then we only have to do with cheap rip offs of human organs which (organs) are not -even- the best we can get for the work engineering-wise.
  • jiggeryXpokery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm just waiting for it all to backfire - I see a Robot Invasion ahead. :D We'll all be unemployed before long ;)
  • Bukkfrig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Back in the 50s-60s it appeared as though computers would give us enough processing power to simulate the human brain by around the 1970's. It was soon discovered to be simply untrue - the human brain is several orders of magnitude more powerful than today's supercomputers. So even if you make a computer twice as powerful or ten times more powerful than the most advanced computer we have today, you're still not even close since we're dealing with orders of magnitude, here.

    Still, as the growth of computers has proved to be exponential (Moore's Law), the trend would lead us to believe that some time in the 2020s it will be possible to create a very expensive supercomputer with the capacity of the human brain. Then, of course we need the algorithms for machine learning and so forth to truly simulate conciousness, which is going to be a mission in itself.
    • Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, that's simply untrue. Back in the 1950s people viewed computers a lot differently than we view them today, they were banking systems -at best-, most believe that they won't even gain the capacity to win a chess player on a one on one match, what "Deep Blue" did was truly outstanding (at least for that time). But, since things came as such, I think you're eright saying that computers don't need more power to simulate brain, or to be more precise they do but the true challenge is two simulate the brain biology in software.

      Many would say it is impossible to reverse engineer the human brain but since the MRI technology became more widespread, everything is more clear and we're making giant progress day after day, there are already hoods with which you can play pong just by your thoughts alone (CES 2006), or even Quake (CES 2007), I don't think that we are that far from a video game which wouldn't need to make a move to "move" your character. If we are progressing as fast in human brain's reverse engineering I don't think that Kurzweil prediction that by about 2030 we will have the first real AI is as far fetched, since by then we may very well have reverse engineered more than the 95% of the brain while the hardware prowess would be already there....
  • keyguy242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The white blood reminds me of BISHOP's blood from Aliens. That would be awesome. MOMMY I WANT A BISHOP!!!!!!
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