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Sorry to burst your bubble, but aging is not "just another biological process". It isn't even biological... everything ages and decays, even inorganic matter.
by jbotz 5y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but aging is not "just another biological process". It isn't even biological... everything ages and decays, even inorganic matter. Even rocks decay into clay.
Living biological processes by their nature resist decay, but that's an uphill battle... eventually entropy wins. Errors and waste products accumulate, materials become brittle and fragile, with every year lived the probability of dying before the next increases.
Can we help our biology to become more efficient at maintenance and repair? Probably, but not all that much. We are already very long lived. The only complex terrestrial beings that live longer do so by living very slowly... in terms of subjective time experienced, maybe they don't live any longer at all.
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