For someone who really has a good grasp on the subject, could stem cells be used for reverse aging therapy? Could we take a senior and with the right diet and exercise, and exposure to stem cells, they could revert to the prime of their youth and reset the clock on their mortality?
If this is possible why aren't we more loud about making this legal and a thing?
Humans are tehnically immortal in this universe. Just put body to statis, put bob to explore how to reverse aging and when he finds out how, he just pulls you from statis there is no need for replication. That was strange for me with bridget
Do you guys think there are people out there trying to stop biological immortality from happening, delay it, or only have it for certain people? If so how can we get past it and achieve immortality. I have a family members who is 59 and another who is 55 and smokes. I am deeply concerned that they won’t be able to get it even if it comes around in their lifetime.
I tell myself that it wouldn’t be just one discovery. It’s not going to get “We discovered biological immortality! Signing up patients now!” It’s going to be slower. New technologies will be created that allow us to life to 120 on average, then 140. Maybe that will come around in the next 20 years or so. Even when we do discover biological immortality it is unlikely to be a shot and there you go. It would probably be years of various tests and treatments and may require pills, more treatments, and such to keep.
That is also a fear of mine. Powerful companies requiring us to get continual treatments and such to keep our immortality and preventing “permanent immortality” from being researched or released. So that we are dependent on them and have to keep paying them. That’s not to mention a class of elites avoids taxes, hoarding money, and buying everything up. I’m generally a libertarian and want to keep out of other people business, but this concept terrifies me. The only way around this I can see would be to give the government more power. Which wouldn’t be much better and might even make it worse.
I feel like at that point if I were to get biological Immortality I would just try my best to avoid random accidents, and just become the ultimate neet in VR all day. I'd only have to worry about earthly natural disasters and the sun expanding in "billions of years", but most likely the scientists should still be at work trying to find "Meaning" and most earthly issues should be sorted out. I just wouldn't care anymore and go into societal zombie/living life mode if I didn't have to die. We might even figure out what consciousness and death really is and reverse engineer that, anything is possible in the future we really don't know. The best thing you can do now is to try your best to stay alive and hope the technological singularity doesn't wipe us out. I'm hoping for a utopia tbh.
I think most of us should just focus on /r/longevity tbh
Penalty for failing to kill someone each month results in instant death.
In what time frame do you think medicine will be able to cure aging?
With aging and disease out of the way surely we wouldn’t stop there. Humanity would seek ways to prevent and mitigate other other threats like earthquakes and someday maybe even supernovas or the theoretical end of the universe. We would have near infinite time to find solutions.
What do you guys think will happen next?
Title says all.
I wanna hear what yall have to say about it.
Don't get me wrong when I say people like de Grey are great at what they do, but their self-promotion that immortality is within our grasp is optimistic at best and disingenuous at worst. The current ways of achieving it aren't more than likely feasible (cryogenics, mind uploading, cell senescence/senolytics, nanorobots, cybernetic implants, genetic engineering) in this lifetime.
We've been saying we're going to have so many amazing things in our life time? How many times have people promoted we're gonna have this or that in our lifetime (cold fusion, flying cars, the ability to remove greenhouse gases from the air, etc.). Sure it might happen, but 20 years, 40 years, 100 years? It prevents people from taking the research seriously.
So as you might have noticed, I am not a big fan of technological immortality(upload) and am really pro biological immortality!
I have heard a lot of interesting thoughts on why might technological immortality be a better option, however am still not convinced. Mainly, because when technology is concerned, there are just too many things that may go wrong, too many things we did not take into consideration and juat missed them... but here, the worst thing that can happen is not a glitch in an app, but many lives being erased in the process.
In addition to that, I do not see why everybody thinks that it will be easier to become immortal via upload, rather than biology. In my opninion it will be MUCH harder to recreate an exact digital copy of an existing system of this level of complexity, rather than just tweaking it so its more fit for our use.
What do you people think? :)
I plan to help further anti aging research in my future and I'm wondering what field I should go in to achieve that goal.
Has it ever been mentioned what if any level of cultivation gives a cultivator biological immortality, that is to say doesn't age anymore and is immune to conventional disease?
Will there ever be a point where humans would feel that they have accomplished everything that there is to be accomplished as a species and spend the rest of their days enjoying the fruits of their labor? Or would humans continue to create new goals and it will be a never ending process of always striving towards increased efficiency, increasing power, and surviving against all odds?
Interesting interview with Andrew Steele about counter-ageing and scientific work towards biological immortality. Based around his new book 'Ageless: The New Science of Getting Old Without Getting Older' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtmrdYCxF1I&t=2273s
Interesting interview with Andrew Steele about counter-ageing and scientific work towards biological immortality. Based around his new book 'Ageless: The New Science of Getting Old Without Getting Older' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtmrdYCxF1I&t=2273s
