Can the human brain handle immortality?

Are you proposing a concept of immortality that includes eternal preservation of all bodily organs and their functions except for the brain? Why would you do that? The actuarial trend for dementia with aging is brutal. read more

The original poster asked this question in the context of age-related dementia, and the answer to that question is the same as it is to any other form of age-related degeneration. To wit, if the physical brain can be maintained in a youthful condition, age-related dementia is a non-issue. read more

Not human exactly, but in R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse books there's a progenitor race who were granted immortality through a deal with the series Big Bad, and are all going slowly insane as a result -- after thousands of years of life, the only memories that remain are the most terrible and traumatic. read more