Before or after it had to pass. On September 24, 2025 María Branyas died, famous for being the longest woman in the history of Spain, having reached the age of 117. The trick? Apparently, his biological age was 23 years younger than his chronological age due to a combination of genetics and the healthy habits that he maintained during his life, as determined by the study carried out by the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute.
The question is still suggestive, since it allows us to fantasize about the possibility of prolonging human life. But how long? If we asked Putin and Xi Jinping, they would tell us that up to 150 years or, even, indefinitely, thanks to medical advances such as organ replacement surgery, as they would have been talking during the military parade held in the Tiananmen Square in September 2025. And they are not the only Authentic fortunes in the search for immortality.
Waiting for this to be achieved, other pathways are being explored, in which the physical housing (the human body) is not relevant, to be able to be completely replaced by some type of hardware (robots, computer servers, storage units, etc.), so that the significant is the extraction and conservation of the data, memories and thoughts of a person, that is, of their consciousness, through their consciousness, by their consciousness. person, as happened in the eternal film; or in a virtual world where I could live forever, in the style of the San Junípero episode of the Black Mirror series.
And it seems that scientists are feasible the hypothesis that memory could survive clinical death if brain architecture remains intact, since, according to the study published in July 2025 in PLOS One magazine, within the research carried out by the Monash University (Australia), after consulting more than three hundred neuroscientists, 70.7 % replied that they saw that I saw possible to extract memories of the brains of deceased people through neuronal preservation technologies with methods such as cryopreservation with aldehyde and vitrification.
Digital eternity
In this line, the so-called “Deadbots” began to be created, designed with artificial intelligence (AI), designed so that family and friends of a deceased person can relieve his duel, establishing conversations with a chatbot capable of answering as if he were the decease appearance that he would be talking to someone who is no longer there.
This raises important ethical and moral issues, since there is no consensus on whether this contributes to delay the acceptance of the loss; as well as legal, related to privacy and data protection, especially in the event that the consent of the deceased person is not recorded to collect, store and treat your personal information, as well as to use your image (name, physical appearance and/or voice) by the virtual assistant. But, moreover, the question of whether this consent would be sufficient in the event that there was a denigrating treatment of the dignity of the deceased is raised.
But there could be another twist, if it were finally possible to create “living” computers, as stated in the experiment conducted in 2023 by researchers from the University of Illinois (United States), in which a computer size was designed to An optical fiber, with the idea of developing robots that use living muscle tissue to process information through a neuronal network capable of relating data.
This scenario would raise more dilemmas, Morales, in the event that human cells begin to be experienced in this regard; as well as legal, since European regulations (Regulation (EU) 2024/1938, of substances of human origin (SOHO), among others) and Spanish (in particular, Law 14/2006, of May 26, on techniques of assisted human reproduction) mark clear limits with respect to the creation of human preemblies and embryos and the use of human genetic material for experimentation purposes; It is true that there are more permissive laws such as China, where investigations are being more avant -garde.
Anyway, you can’t put doors to the field. If there is the possibility of prologing human life, either in the physical sense of the term, or through the indefinite conservation of consciousness, it is certain that it will be deepened about it, since the desire for immortality is one of the hidden desires of the human being from the dawn of time. And it is a fact that the regulations have adapted to medical advances, so that what would have been prohibited in another era, today is perfectly normalized, such as the transplant of an organ.
And this transformation of humans to Cyborgs that advocates transhumanism, could be the key for humanity to reach objectives until now, such as, for example, trips to planets that are found hundreds of years-to-land of the earth, either in “immortal” consciences inserted into robotic units, either by crioGenized brains that would remain asleep during the time that the long trip resuscaded in their new destination. We probably do not see it, but who knows if future generations can do it.
