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Not only it is taxing on planet earth I think there is more to it. Assume people of middle ages lived 1000 years longer than they did, I doubt the civilization
by hohenheim 10y ago
Not only it is taxing on planet earth I think there is more to it. Assume people of middle ages lived 1000 years longer than they did, I doubt the civilization on earth would have developed as far as it did.
To progress we need people to die and the new to born with radical ideas.
- drcross 10y agoThat's a fairly large assumption. Students need 24 years of education to get to Phd level before they reach the state of the art and push things forward. If we lived longer with augmented brain power we would have more experts in fields and thus more progress. My assertion isn't any less refutable than yours.
- rfrey 10y agoPeople do not develop interests in chronological lockstep with each other. Consider that there may be a pool of people who do not develop interests in mathematics or science until their late 20s, at which point they rationally decide it is too late to make a career of it. Increased longevity would open that pool of creative thought. A corollary to that: removing time constraints would allow people to engage with a much broader range of experiences in a very deep way, possibly enhancing creativity and cross-fertilization of ideas.