‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality
www.theguardian.com
Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again

Inspired by this article about a jellyfish that doesn’t die of old age, injury or poor conditions, it just reverts back to a juvenile state and is reborn genetically identical. If you could be reborn, as you, would you want to?

Edit: Just the physical you, genetic and presumably epigenetic, no memory.

  • tomi000@lemmy.world
    2·
    23 hours ago

    If you dont keep your memory its no different than a new human being born, so I guess the only question is if I want my exact genetics to keep existing and get more chances to pass them on. I dont really care about that so its whatever for me.

    • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      22 hours ago

      I came to the same conclusion after a while. Then I thought how some people view progeny as a form of immortality. This is maybe a tad more direct.