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Raëlism - Immortality through science?

Raëlism - Immortality through science?: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Immortality through science?

The Raëlians believe that immortality through science will one day be possible. The prophet Raël explains that this will be achieved through the following steps: creating a genetically identical copy of someone by human cloning causing the clone to mature much, much faster than normal (Raël makes the statement that in future scientists will discover a so-called "accelerated-growth process" - see mention on CNN. Then in a process like guided self-assembly of rapidly expanded cells or even nanotechnological assembly a ...

Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Immortality through science?

Raëlism - Immortality through science?

The Raëlians believe that immortality through science will one day be possible. The prophet Raël explains that this will be achieved through the following steps:

creating a genetically identical copy of someone by human cloning
causing the clone to mature much, much faster than normal (Raël makes the statement that in future scientists will discover a so-called "accelerated-growth process" - see mention on CNN. Then in a process like guided self-assembly of rapidly expanded cells or even nanotechnological assembly a whole human body may be created in a very short time.)
transferring the memory and personality of the original person to the mature clone by some kind of scientific process, presumably through a computer back up of the person's brain waves, which is then downloaded onto the fresh clone.

The first step, human cloning, while certainly not trivial, is widely recognized as a goal science is capable of pursuing, despite being thought of as science fiction only 20 years ago. Some scientists and many non-scientists, however, find both ideas ethically troublesome. Raëlians do not share these scruples, and followers of Raël, including trained scientists, are actively researching this first step. One Raëlian member has founded Clonaid, a company that claimed to have cloned the first human being (in 2002), but has so far provided no proof, and the claim is widely regarded as a hoax.

It is unclear to many non-Raëlians how the second or third step could be accomplished, but there does appear to be growing research in Asia and other places concerning both accelerated growth and brain-computer communication. It is theorized that human memory and personality could be backed up on silicon.

Raël also proposes cloning as the solution to terrorism by suicide attacks, as the perpetrators wouldn't be able to escape punishment by killing themselves if they could be recreated after their attacks.

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