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I think this Quora answer says what you're saying, arguing that "the human lifespan [is] not a limit but an optimization":http://qr.ae/L5v6z http://qr.ae/L5v6z
by eevilspock 11y ago
I think this Quora answer says what you're saying, arguing that "the human lifespan [is] not a limit but an optimization":http://qr.ae/L5v6z http://qr.ae/L5v6z
- Animats 11y agoThat's much closer to reality. Death is mostly a timeout, not a wearout, and this has evolutionary benefits. Medicine has made great progress on wearout and damage problems, but hasn't yet made much progress on the timeout issues, the ones which degrade the self-repair mechanisms over time. This will probably be solved eventually, although it may only work for new organisms created from genetically engineered DNA. Bear in mind how new our understanding of how life works really is. The role of DNA wasn't understood at all until 1953. DNA manipulation is still at the "hack and see what works" level; designing and editing DNA from first principles is not yet here.