This also a reply to similar comment about "cleaning myelin".
The big question here is (to which I allude in my comment): How do you control the "resetting" process, so that you wouldn't lose the information that you consider important? I simply don't think there is a good way to do it.
We already have a way to be immortal - have kids and teach them what you know and think is important. Which is an arduous and complicated process; I don't think this "myelin cleaning" or whatever will be any easier.
I don't think I want this reset. It may mean you become entirely different person, or your memories get lost. Let's say you and your wife resets, and forget most memories you have of each other, pretty much why you're together. Or you reset and you become a different person to your kids, and they become different to you.
I personally find either having kids, or teaching (if you can't have kids for whatever reason), a more interesting proposition than some magical procedure that will clean my brain. If anything, it sounds really irresponsible to your future self - kinda like leaving your kids in the forest to take care of themselves.
> I don't think I want this reset. It may mean you become entirely different person, or your memories get lost. Let's say you and your wife resets, and forget most memories you have of each other, pretty much why you're together. Or you reset and you become a different person to your kids, and they become different to you.
This already exists in the forms of psychedelic drugs and transcranial magnetic stimulation. There is no memory loss, you just start thinking and feeling about things differently. It can and does lead to divorce and changes in relationships to relatives: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/an-experimental-aut...
This is not at all the downside you portray it to be. Many people use these methods to change or leave dysfunctional relationships.
The person you are right now will be dead in 20 years. In its place will be a person who has access to some of your more important memories as well as the resources you have made available for it. After a long enough period of time, the difference between wiping your own brain and starting over vs having children will be small.
The big question here is (to which I allude in my comment): How do you control the "resetting" process, so that you wouldn't lose the information that you consider important? I simply don't think there is a good way to do it.
We already have a way to be immortal - have kids and teach them what you know and think is important. Which is an arduous and complicated process; I don't think this "myelin cleaning" or whatever will be any easier.
I don't think I want this reset. It may mean you become entirely different person, or your memories get lost. Let's say you and your wife resets, and forget most memories you have of each other, pretty much why you're together. Or you reset and you become a different person to your kids, and they become different to you.
I personally find either having kids, or teaching (if you can't have kids for whatever reason), a more interesting proposition than some magical procedure that will clean my brain. If anything, it sounds really irresponsible to your future self - kinda like leaving your kids in the forest to take care of themselves.