Austin Lynch

it is not enough to save the living we must also reclaim those whom death has already taken for there is no greater injustice than accepting death as final this is the work to which we have been called we undertake what no one else dares, so that one day, none shall be beyond our reach for if no one begins, no one will ever return

still with the same guys I started it all with nitter.cf/kaimicahmills/status/5…

bodyoids may be the key to extending human lifespan beyond perfectly-matched replacement organs and tissues whenever you need them, imagine replacing everything all at once, instead of piece by piece a head or brain transplant onto a brand new body, a clone of yourself, when your current body can no longer be repaired scientists have both successfully cloned primates and performed head transplants on primates in fact, the reason the primate died 9 days after the head transplant, in the 1970s, was due to the body rejecting the head - something a clone bodyoid would solve arpa-h recently launched a program called front with hundreds of millions of dollars working on progressive replacement of the brain, the one piece we of course cannot swap out entirely at hydradao we now have rats, rabbits, and even pigs walking days after complete transection of the spinal cord, ensuring a head transplant would not lead to quadriplegia pieces of the puzzle are coming together to form a path towards radical life extension that doesn't require us to solve the mysteries of aging bodyoids are at the center of it all

the bodyoid faq: - how would bodyoids exist without a brain? biology already gives examples - in rare conditions like hydranencephaly, large portions of the brain, including the cerebral hemispheres, fail to develop the body still forms, organs grow, and many basic physiological systems function, but the neural architecture required for consciousness never emerges a bodyoid would apply the same principle intentionally: allow normal body development while preventing formation of the structures associated with sentience - development continues, tissues mature, organs grow, but the organism never forms a conscious brain - why not just do cultured meat? cultured meat may work for simple tissues, but biology already knows how to build vascularized muscle, fat marbling, connective tissue, skin, and bone - a bodyoid lets development do the work we then also unlock organs on demand, blood, skin, collagen, and countless other biological materials also, people clearly don't find it good enough - why doesn't everyone just stop eating meat? good luck - are you jewish? no - is this science fiction? no - we are actively funding labs with millions of $$ working on brainless clones and other steps of this process via @daohydra, some of whom have already had successes in small mammals (mouse bodyoids that lack consciousness, have no head/arms/legs, only a tail, which they are still working to remove) - why not just print organs? bioprinting is promising but extremely difficult at full scale - organs are dense vascular systems with billions of cells arranged precisely, a bodyoid grows them naturally - are human bodyoids next? hopefully! the bottleneck in modern medicine is biological material right now, people die waiting for organs - kidneys, hearts, livers, lungs, skin grafts, bone, blood products - demand vastly exceeds supply a human bodyoid platform would mean organs on demand - clones would mean perfectly matched tissues grown for each patient - no waiting lists, no rejection, no need to rely on deceased donors it would also transform trauma care and surgery where severe burns could receive unlimited skin grafts, damaged organs could be replaced rather than managed, experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious humans, and the list goes on so, yes, you should want your own personal bodyoid - this is evil/an abomination/going against god/etc/you should be burned at the stake you should see what we do to the real pigs - ethically speaking, this is essentially a meaty plant bodyoids are coming :) btw, I have enjoyed many hours reading hundreds of very funny comments, thank you

those of us who played SOMA growing up learned this lesson early on transhumanism's mistake was making identity abstract - it was no longer continuity that mattered, no longer *you*, but rather a pattern or data I attended an event a few weeks back where a speaker advocated that for immortality we did not need to keep continuity, and in fact we did not even need brain preservation at all - we simply needed a robust enough collection of our social media posts, pictures, etc, and we could recreate a convincing enough version of ourselves this is the culmination of this way of thinking - you no longer matter; a crude puppet with similar enough features will suffice, and in fact that is you in every way that matters there is an entire subset of the cryo field focused on fixation due to their belief that biological viability does not matter it is fundamentally anti-human and deathist - this was one of the first dangerous ideals that detached us from cosmism, the last true anti-death ideology, and thus began the slippery slope that lead us to a deathist culture in the longevity field today

decentralized science has the opportunity to fund and advance frontier life extension technologies that would otherwise be neglected for decades but desci is a deeply broken field "agentic science" nonsense, grifters, useless tokens, memecoins, fake research... we spent the week in argentina with the real builders, scientists and investors who want to see this space work and create true impact we've been building our ecosystem of cryo, hydra, and more for years now, and soon we will release an engine that enables us to 1000x our speed and reach what is coming is inevitable, not because it always was, but because we will make it so