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Since Ancient Egypt this belief in afterlife has gone through many stages and even transformed into the new belief of immortality without body, suggesting alternative modes of further existence such as downloading your brain into the silicon machine (see for example Kurzweil, R. The Singularity is Near, Penguin Group, 2005). The present culture is marked by obsession with the perfect-body-cult what is otherwise called quantified-self (see for example Wolf, G. Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365). | Since Ancient Egypt this belief in afterlife has gone through many stages and even transformed into the new belief of immortality without body, suggesting alternative modes of further existence such as downloading your brain into the silicon machine (see for example Kurzweil, R. The Singularity is Near, Penguin Group, 2005). The present culture is marked by obsession with the perfect-body-cult what is otherwise called quantified-self (see for example Wolf, G. Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365). | ||
==Immortal Organisms== | |||
Some degree of immortality is seen in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus) Hydra], a jellyfish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula Turritopsis nutricula], Tardigrades, Lobsters, Planarian flatworms and Bacteria. | |||
==Workshop (Mummifying a fruit)== | ==Workshop (Mummifying a fruit)== | ||