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		rusanu on March 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 y... What makes you sure? Central nervous system neurons are incapable of regeneration[0], so is anybody's guess what would happen if they did get replaced. And, long term, "significant" has to be "all". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroregeneration

adrianN on March 8, 2016 [–]

People can have rather serious strokes that kill large number of neurons without losing their sense of self. Sometimes we remove half the brain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy

That gives me confidence that replacing neurons at a rate that counters natural aging does not significantly alter me.

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