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The perpetual motion machine analogy is quite apt, because fighting aging is ultimately fighting entropy. Both are doomed to fail in their quixotic battle again
by thoms_a 5y ago
The perpetual motion machine analogy is quite apt, because fighting aging is ultimately fighting entropy. Both are doomed to fail in their quixotic battle against thermodynamics.
- rowanG077 5y agoIf you take this stance you might as well start arguing for the extinction of humanity and destruction of earth. After all everything is "doomed to fail in their quixotic battle against thermodynamics".
- thoms_a 5y agoA classic is/ought distinction error. Observing reality is not the same as prescribing a particular course of action.
- rowanG077 5y agoYour post heavily implies anti aging beeing futile. Likening it to the search of a perpetual motion machine. I fail to see how this is not heavily suggesting a course of a action.
- c1ccccc1 5y agoThis is a common misconception about the second law of thermodynamics. That law implies that all life must eventually starve to death if nothing else kills it first, because the universe will have run out of usable energy. But as long as the energy supply lasts, non-aging life forms are possible. (Bacteria are arguably an example.)