Is it possible to replace all the organs in my body with artificial ones so that there's less of a chance of dying?

is it possible to replace all the organs in my body with artificial ones so that there's less of a chance of dying?

stopping aging seems like the silly way to approach things. why not just replace as many organic systems with inorganic ones? less factors for trauma, disease, and so forth. for example, an infection stemming from the extremities wouldn't occur if your limbs were replaced with prosthetics, however the performance would be significantly lower due to complex muscle gaits needing a lot of input that wouldn't be available with a stump. my proposal is that we can mitigate this with direct electrode input until a proper method can be made.

ok so trauma can be mitigated there. what about artificial lungs? less change of collapse and suffocation, and of course pathological complications. same context with the heart too; no arrhythmias, aneurisms, or bisections to complicate the process.

artificial blood to help ease filtration wear on kidneys, and so on until other prosthesis can be made for other vital system.s

thoughts? this seems more like a viable approach to life extensions considering major causes of death here.

Currently existing artificial organs don't work very well. You'd be lucky to last a year with an artificial heart for example.

just keep replacing it then. thoracotomy on demand.

its not the artificial heart that fails, its your entire system, you cant survive for long with lets say dialysis or an artificial heart, they are far from sufficient, and cant replace an actual organ for long.

i don't quite follow. if the implant doesn't get rejected or cause immune response why would your body fail?

Machines are far more fragile than biological organs. Unless a leap in technology gives rise to antifragile machines, expect your artificial organs to wear out and need repair every few years or so.

>blood vessels
>stronger than anything

lol?

That's clearly not what he said. Please graduate high school before you continue posting.

he said that they're more fragile than blood vessels, so my converse holds. you should graduate first before getting triggered so easily.

>he doesn't know what antifragile means
Typical IYI.
Unless you're an obese diabetic waste of flesh you'll very likely never experience any problems with your blood vessels in the >70 years of your life, which is far more reliable than pretty much any technology used today.

Since you're still in middle school, I'll explain what he meant.
>"Modern machines are not as durable as healthy human organs."
Tbh, I'm surprised you can even navigate the internet with an IQ as low as yours. Did mommy and daddy not read to you as a child?

Can't live forever on blood thinners, blood pressure medications, and anti-infectives.

The heart is more than a simple pump. It's a complicated pump capable of self-regulation, maintainence, and intricate feedback loops. It also receives hormonal and other protein messenger signals from other parts of the body as well as secreting them.

When all you're left with is a foreign battery powered pump, your body needs to do all that without the heart, which is difficult to do.

There's more to transplants and total organ replacements than rejection and organ failure even though that's all pop-media talks about.

machines can't repair themselves yet, tissues can

clanker reductionists btfo kill yourselves faggots

Dialysis machines destroy RBCs. Kidneys don't.

I don't think you appreciate how complicated and efficient the human physiological system is.

One of the theoretical possibilities for the development of our species that I've come across involves the gradual replacement of our organic bits with bioengineered bits. Eventually reaching the point of full synthetic existence in the physical aspect and subsequently a realization and then transcendence of of physicality and consciousness. e.g consciousness being separate from a physical brain thus no need for it.

Yeah I know semi pseudo sciency but I did say theoretical

Tissues cannot be grown on industrial quantities.

Machines can.

So what if the artificial limb only lasts 5 years, when you can get it replaced? Good luck fixing your 80+ rated, custom made, self-repairing natural limb from a multiple fracture on the knee.

>Machines can be grown on industrial quantities.
Not really. Prosthesis and bionics are very much tailor made for individuals. Much more so than artificial organs where the only concern is size usually.

I said can be. The fact that they currently aren't is just a matter of lack of demand.

Also, industrial doesn't necessarily mean "same proportions for every piece". We are not in the 20th century, nor in the 19th.

Okay but you're only looking over the organs at a basic level i.e. the heart pumps blood, the lungs bring oxygen into the circulation but what you're failing to take into account is the molecular complexity and how fine they keep the body in balance. It would be extremely difficult to make a synthetic liver that still contained all the enzymes or a kidney that can filter and control acid/base properties exactly

Jesus christ what a shit design, those little barbed connections are going to snap off with any kind of force applied to them.

Unless you go full mechanical (like in Ghost in the Shell) you'll still have organic parts that will wear out. Stopping/Slowing ageing is the only path besides full consciousness simulation in non-ageing/100% replaceable hardware.

Even in simple matters of materials technology, the mesh that we put in to fix your hernia is going to wear out quicker and with less stress than the tissues that you ripped originally survived.

Evolution might not have had easy access to the heavy metals and quick-burning fuels which we use to power and hold up things on a scale single organisms can't dream of, but in terms of mechanisms function, our little fledgling science that we've been building up for the past 2100 years don't have anything on the tree of life.

Artificially growing real organs would be the only way.