Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
Then there’s finding ways to get past the limitations of our bodies and current medicine, which could mean donating one’s body or brain to cryogenics. If something like whole brain emulation is possible you could take frozen brains of people, and make another version of that old brain
The researchers showed that light was activating in the mice a protein, melanopsin, which also has a role in regulating the body clock, and is present in people. However, whether the same processes take place in people or other animals is unknown.
