By Patrick Pester — 2021
The human body is really holding us back.
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Shin Kubota fears that the lessons of the immortal jellyfish will be absorbed too soon, before man is ready to harness the science of immortality in an ethical manner.
Through the Immortality Project, researchers aim to answer the moral and biological questions surrounding extending human life spans.
Funded by elites, researchers believe they’re closer than ever to tweaking the human body so we can live forever (or quite a bit longer)
A study counts blood cells and footsteps to predict a hard limit to our longevity
The fantasy of living forever is just a fig leaf for the fear of death—and comes at great personal cost
Stephen Cave points out that civilization as a whole can be viewed as a collection of life-extension technologies, the motivation for its existence being again—immortality.
However painful death is, to many people immortality is not any better. Why would someone immortal want to live? Where would his or her drive come from?
Filip Matous sits down with Cambridge University philosopher Stephen Cave to crack open some of the insights from his fascinating book, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
For devout believers, a central tenet of the ancient Chinese practice of Taoism is the belief that adhering to certain beliefs and practices can lead to very long life, even immortality.
I am a spiritual being, ageless and eternal. The idea that the older one gets, the more one slows down may be a widely accepted belief, but I do not accept it.
