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Well if we "cure" aging, it will have the awkward consequence that every life must end with an accident, disease or suicide.
I imagine humans living long enough to begin augmenting their bodies and brains into a thing that no longer resembles the original being. Or even a form of life as we understand it today.
Well if we "cure" aging, it will have the awkward consequence that every life must end with an accident, disease or suicide.
If we can finally cure aging, then, at long last, we will finally be able feasibly tackle inter-galatic travel and planet-level terraforming.
Well if we "cure" aging, it will have the awkward consequence that every life must end with an accident, disease or suicide.
Investing in things other than not-freaking-dying - now that's awkward.
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Its a cause of death. We like to avoid those. And we know multicellular organisms exist that can maintain their telomeres and avoid senescence. We are almost certainly going to be able to genetically engineer that into future people at some point, among a lot of other useful things. Dunno if we are going to manage to get gene therapy that can alter living humans so drastically before they die, though. And who knows w…
I would hate to be poor and immortal. That would be the worst. I feel like immortality is something for the rich.
Is aging a disease? :)
Sometimes I feel we should cure living. I would prefer to live only 70 years but fully, having built good human relationships, knowing how to learn, rather than 100 unfulfilled ones.
Thousand years later, first colonists in a different galaxy:
- Remember that dude from our childhood?
- Yeah, choosing to live a mere 70 years - so weird...
- Never mind, let's keep Terra-forming..."
Well if we "cure" aging, it will have the awkward consequence that every life must end with an accident, disease or suicide.
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Sometimes I feel we should cure living. I would prefer to live only 70 years but fully, having built good human relationships, knowing how to learn, rather than 100 unfulfilled ones.
That's cool, as long as everyone has both options. Thousand years later, first colonists in a different galaxy: - Remember that dude from our childhood? - Yeah, choosing to live a mere 70 years - so weird... - Never mind, let's keep Terra-forming..."
One reason why we age and die - might be because we(any living being) want to evolve, and that pressurizes us to cross breed and give birth to new generation before we die and finally die and not hog up all the resources ourselves. And let the better generation live on. That natural strategy might have become suboptimal since the progress in science.
You might be mistaking cause for a reason here.
One reason why we age and die - might be because we(any living being) want to evolve, and that pressurizes us to cross breed and give birth to new generation before we die and finally die and not hog up all the resources ourselves. And let the better generation live on. That natural strategy might have become suboptimal since the progress in science.
You might be mistaking cause for a reason here.