It is funny that people think that there are no serious research in this area. The reasons why people in Africa for example, have a low life expectancy is not just because of medical care, but also because of political problems.Time may indeed be on your side.
Why do you personally want to live forever?This may sound like science fiction, but Aubrey de Grey thinks this could be our reality in as little as 25 years. The reason that's important is because mice are sufficiently furry and people can identify with them. Or will they do to you what current humans would do if they finally caught Sasquatch roaming around through the forests (that is, stick you in a zoo)? Before the Singularity, the world will have changed more in a century than it has in the previous thousand centuries. I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.So you think it'll one day be as easy as getting a vaccine?What would you do if you could live substantially longer?Your strategy would involve not only preventing aging, but reversing it as well. As Aubrey deGrey has said, all that is necessary for this to happen is to add one day of healthy lifespan for each day lived. If life is fun at the moment, because one is healthy and youthful, both mentally and physically, then one is not likely to want to die in the next year or two. Around 30-50 years. It will be many decades before we understand the way cells and organs work well enough to be able to describe in detail the mechanism of how these problems actually occur.You think this project is going to succeed in your lifetime?I think it's got a respectable chance.
In the meantime, whether or not there’s a hereafter, we live here and now, so we must make the most of our time by making every day, every encounter, every relationship count, for that is where the true meaning of life is found.The goals of extropy are uplifting if not utopian: longer lives, more intelligence, greater wisdom, improved physical and mental health, and the elimination of political, economic, and cultural limits to personal development and social progress.
But if you run across the Holy Grail, don't drink from it.
If you can just last another quarter century.A good parallel is vaccines. So 25 years from now.Once the technology is available, nearly everyone is going to want it. You'll be like a guy revealing himself to be Jesus, and proving it. Only don't count on being rescued, because the people in charge of doing that tend to give up when shit gets too hard to dig through and they've pulled enough people out to say, "We tried. The secret to eternal life would be worth far, far more.But it's a dangerous world out there, and any number of freak accidents could get you stuck somewhere, with no escape, for the rest of time.Copyright ©2005-2020.
It might start off as lets say a month in the hospital, and 10 years down the road, that will turn into a day in the hospital.It's not possible to say. So if I can avoid declining, I'll stay with it really.
Does that mean people will get to choose what age they want to remain?Thank you for signing up to Live Science. This is counter to the ways that scientists think, because scientists are interested in knowledge for its own sake, whereas I'm interested in knowledge as a means to an end.Could you give me an example of when your background has proven useful?What kind of life will the immortal or nearly-immortal lead? The other thing to bear in mind, is that it's not an either or thing. Our human genomes will be modified to include the genetic material of microorganisms that live in the soil, enabling us to break down the junk proteins that our cells amass over time and which they can't digest on their own.