Maugena wrote:shieldgenerator7 wrote:yeah that's what stasis is about: halting the aging of the body. it also puts you to sleep so you don't think when you're in stasis
Your referencing of a vague concept doesn't really help us come to a conclusion on this.
The vision I have for what we're both essentially getting at here is a system that rejuvenates all of your cells in your body. You'd ultimately have to replace most, if not all of them. I think aging is more or less just a structural problem (on the cellular level, not the atomic level). The replication process has errors and those errors, over great periods of time, cause problems... which can ultimately lead to death.
The consciousness bit is really irrelevant to the base concept. Of course you'd rather not be awake for eons, but it's not like you have to be asleep.
That makes me wonder though... about people that wake up after having been in a coma for a long period of time... Do they actually have thought processes going on when in a coma? Can they remember them after they wake up? If so, how long of a period of time would they have felt had passed compared to how long their coma actually lasted? -What I'm getting at here is... Even if you were put to sleep, would your subconscious thoughts continue? Would you tire of them and want to wake up? <- I could see people going insane if that were the case.
well if it had to rejuvenate all the cells in your body then yeah it would eventually cause errors that might lead to death.
But I think what it really is is something that stops your body from aging at all, so it wouldn't have to replace your cells. There are frogs that "die" in the winter and then revive themselves in the summer. There are tiny creatures called "Tardigrades" that halt their body processes when conditions get bad so they can restart their body processes when conditions get back to their liking. I think stasis for interstellar travel should be like that. It should halt the body processes so that the cells don't deteriorate at all.
And about dreaming for long periods of time: why would people go insane from dreaming? I like dreaming at night, I go on many strange and interesting adventures in my sleep. But that's really besides the point, as with the stasis tech I'm thinking of, you wouldn't dream at all, because if you did, your brain would require energy to dream and the stasis would keep you from using any energy at all.
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