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RE: Transhumanism, maintenance and the end of death

in #philosophy8 years ago

This is something my brother and I have often discussed, and we both agree living forever is awesome. Think of all the things you could learn, see, do, experience, discover with unlimited time. It would be amazing. And, when we talk about it, we mean living forever, or hundreds or thousands of years at least, in young, healthy bodies, possibly through reverse aging therapies, so we could get the full enjoyment of the experience. He became so interested in the subject, he got his Ph.D. last year in Molecular Biology, with a specialization in Longevity Studies. He's already started up his own biotech company and a non-profit dedicated to studying longevity and developing longevity treatments. Through his decade of working toward his Ph.D. and the things he learned, he says living forever is definitely a theoretical possibility. He says there is no biological reason humans can't achieve immorality. All we have to do is figure out how to turn off or eradicate all the things that contribute to it. He thinks this could be achieved in our lifetimes, maybe even in just a few decades, and reverse aging goes along with it, though it's a slightly separate field. Thanks to my proximity to him, I can get in on clinical trials for anti-aging and longevity treatments, and have already participated in one. It's truly an exciting time in the longevity/anti-aging field, and the technology to allow humans to achieve it is going like gangbusters into the future. I think we'll see some amazing achievements soon.