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Tag Archives: Longevity
What is the maximum human lifespan in this day and age?
What is the maximum human lifespan in this day and age? [ 26/July/21 ] What exactly does the question ask? Lifespan is the length of time a person actually functions (lives). Does the question mean – of those who have … Continue reading
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Tagged future, Longevity, risk mitigation, understanding
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Life extension changes
How would the world change if humans became immortal today–specifically, let’s stipulate that we de-age to or stop aging in our late-twenties, but we all can die of trauma, infection, or other like causes? [ 5/July/21 ] If you remove … Continue reading
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If the average human lifespan was 1,000 years, how would your attitude towards long-term relationships change?
If the average human lifespan was 1,000 years, how would your attitude towards long-term relationships change? [ 15/May/21 ] An interesting idea to contemplate. I am autistic with a strong focus of the physicality of space, my wife is neurotypical … Continue reading
What would be the next course of action if scientists discovered the secret to immortality? Would we stop having children and have everyone on the earth right now live forever? Or would we set a standard Age of death globally?
What would be the next course of action if scientists discovered the secret to immortality? Would we stop having children and have everyone on the earth right now live forever? Or would we set a standard Age of death globally? … Continue reading
Are there too many people in the world for it to survive without radical social change?
Are there too many people in the world for it to survive without radical social change? [ 22/April/21 ] The number of people present is not yet the major driver for social change, and it is rapidly growing in importance. … Continue reading
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Tagged change, complexity, Longevity, survival, understanding
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Response to Elon’s – maximize freedom – comment
Comment to Elon Musk – My Final Warning [ 21/April/21 ] Maximizing freedom is self terminating. What is needed is to maximize freedom with minimal risk to life. Every level of structure has necessary constraints required to support that level … Continue reading
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Tagged freedom, future, Longevity, risk mitigation, security
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Immortality
Will genetic engineering make us inmortals? How? [ 13/April/21 ] Immortality is never a hard option. What we can conceivably do is eliminate the age related loss of function that we currently recognise as “aging”. There will eternally remain the … Continue reading
Notes in a Life Extension forum on the nature of aging and related issues
[ 12/April/21 Facebook – Lifeboat – post by B J Murphy linking to an article on bio-inks] Indefinite life with expanding capabilities is a very complex suite of issues. One of the issues is that gradual changes can happen in … Continue reading
Life-Expectancy – Continued from 2018
Ivan replied to my answer to Life-Expectancy from 2018 [ 2/Mar/21 ] Hi Ivan, The question doesn’t specify “life expectancy at birth” – it is an open question in that sense. There are many possible ways of calculating life expectancy, … Continue reading
A substitute for worry
What is one substitute for worry that can make the world a better place? [ 24/Feb/21 ] Responsibility. Accepting that all complexity has necessary sets of conditions required for survival. Accepting that any real freedom necessarily results in diversity (all … Continue reading
