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I went a massive life extension technology reading binge a few months back, IMHO it is, right now, possible to extend human life indefinitely.
by AC__ 11y ago
I went a massive life extension technology reading binge a few months back, IMHO it is, right now, possible to extend human life indefinitely.
- pault 11y agoDo you have a recommended reading list?
- AC__ 11y agoJust off the top of my my head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_%28antiviral%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_%28antiviral%29 CRISPR as mentioned, anything nano(robotics, surgery etc.), as well as stem cell tech.
- loup-vaillant 11y agoAgeing has several causes, including the accumulation of clutter (basically poison) inside and outside of our cells. I'm not sure becoming a vampire is enough to overcome that. Given the uncertainties, I'd still want to keep cryonics as a back up. (Though it looks unavailable here in Western Europe.)
- erkkie 11y agoThe wear and tear theory of aging is just one of many currently popular, the body is not a mechanical machine necessarily bound to wear and tear, it can in some cases successfully heal itself, some species basically don't age (some can actually revert in lifecycles). A competing theory is programmed aging (in which "clutter" would be an effect of, not a cause): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1369273/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1369273/
- bhouston 11y agoAny idea if that Ray Kurzwiel guy is doing young blood transfusion? It sounds like it would fit his goals as an early adopter of life extension tech..