I'll agree that ECT is pretty iffy. TMS seems to be a lot safer though, based on some research I've done. Though that safety can be very much compromised in the wrong hands and lead to some major issues.
Maybe I'm nuts, but I've been finding some odd comfort in the slim possibility that we'll discover a solid approach and implementation to human immortality within our lifetimes. And I'm not talking about the existential terror that is the idea of uploading your consciousness into a machine, but through keeping the body from decaying and degrading, regeneration, that kind of stuff.
That kind of lifespan with other tricks available would offer the potential for an incredible number of possibilities. And more possibilities means a greater chance of things panning out in a positive way someday.
(Elephant in the room, I'm pretty much an atheist since I see no fathomable way a person's consciousness could conceivably exist after death. And believe me, I've tried to tackle that question on a regular basis, only leading to the same conclusive answer.)
I'll agree that ECT is pretty iffy. TMS seems to be a lot safer though, based on some research I've done. Though that safety can be very much compromised in the wrong hands and lead to some major issues.
Maybe I'm nuts, but I've been finding some odd comfort in the slim possibility that we'll discover a solid approach and implementation to human immortality within our lifetimes. And I'm not talking about the existential terror that is the idea of uploading your consciousness into a machine, but through keeping the body from decaying and degrading, regeneration, that kind of stuff.
That kind of lifespan with other tricks available would offer the potential for an incredible number of possibilities. And more possibilities means a greater chance of things panning out in a positive way someday.
(Elephant in the room, I'm pretty much an atheist since I see no fathomable way a person's consciousness could conceivably exist after death. And believe me, I've tried to tackle that question on a regular basis, only leading to the same conclusive answer.)