What’s your perspective?
It can be slowed down to fair extremes. But it can't be stopped. Nothing can stop all mighty Entropy, which dictates everything of what is and will be.
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 15h
I suspect it's theoretically possible. So long as your genome and epigenome are stored somewhere in your body, minimally mutated, all of your existing cell lines could be gradually restarted with younger versions.
Maintaining age will happen far sooner, so until we have that I'm not sure there's much point in discussing reversal. Unless the advancements required to achieve them are similar.
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5 sats \ 4 replies \ @Shugard 7h
Why should we? Doesn't it make us human?
So far, I think there are three main roles to have a purposeful life:
  1. Having meaningful experiences
  2. Helping others and taking responsibility for others you love
  3. Build a legacy that will outlive you.
Putting all three together, the logical conclusion is to have children and fucking die!
You will have the best experiences on planet Earth watching your child grow up and being the best parent there is. There is no greater responsibility than having a child. Your child will hopefully survive you and carry on your legacy.
Don't you break all that with immortality?
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23 sats \ 2 replies \ @bren 7h
I agree. If you have never had children, it is hard to come to this conclusion though.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Shugard 7h
Go out there, orange pill a girl, make love, make babies
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For me having babies is like paying network fee when we send bitcoin. (I'm really sorry if I hurted your feelings, but i didn't mean it we are from different places and culture and that's why think differently).
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Maybe, it's an cool idea to not die. I'm damn sure science will achieve this one day and new moral and ethical codes will be made.
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how about people first stop consuming all kinds of toxic sludge and figure out what's in their air, water, and food, before playing around with cells on a molecular level? hmmm?
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Yeah! Imagine immortality with colon cancer! Painful isn't?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bren 6h
That's a good point people don't think about when they get to choose to live forever or not.
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reversing aging is not the same as immortality. you might be making a comparison that doesn't make sense.
there's a well trod phrase:
it's not the age that kills you, instead the failure of your organ systems is how you end up dead
The word "aging" is sometimes used to refer to the total system failure that comes with age. And so when people say "reverse aging," they often mean reversing total system failure. It might be the case though that we are able to reverse some systems and thus reverse some parts of aging, but that other systems are more complex than we give them credit for or could possibly appreciate.
All that is to say that I think immortality is within our reach. That it is a surmountable engineering problem.
However, it may not be within my reach. I'm also not certain after some decades of being a life extension enthusiast, whether or not I still hold the view that living indefinitely is the superior option.
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I agree!
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