Dr. Jean Hebert: Progressive Brain Tissue Replacement and How we Beat Aging!

Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and extramural researcher for SRF, Dr. Jean Hebert gives a presentation on replacing brain tissue over time to sustain neurological functions far longer than our current technologies allow us to.

[chlve]

I really hope i can get this in my lifetime, regardless if it increases my lifespan or not. I got brain inflamation during covid and am now suffering long covid symptoms from permenant brain damage due to the loss of neurons per my psychiatrist's assesment. This would be a game changer and id love to be able to experince life to the fullest free from the dull experience ive been having since i got sick

[JayBlackthorne]

Can this tech be built (by non-AI) before AGI/ASI arrives?

I foresee the latter before 2030.

The former, not so much...

I'd go all-in on AI, myself.

[Dan-dyzp]

My hunch is the brain structure will need to be replicated more precisely than a layer cake. It will 'mostly work' till he tries to do anything bilateral and then . . . big problems. But mouse models will certainly reveal that long in advance.

Picture a robotic surgery that instead consists of little needles full of stem cells, layered so the right stem cell type reaches exactly the right area, like the Parkinson example but with thousands of injections through a dozen tiny bore holes, guided by ai using ultrasound. Do a hundred of these minimally invasive surgeries over 30 years.