On August 7, 2019 7:13:01 PM UTC, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-life... https://newatlas.com/alkahest-young-blood-plasma-alzheimers-cognitive-declin... Gr>https://www.calicolabs.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetics_research_organizations https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/26/worlds-first-gene-edited-bab... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Genomics_Institute https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2012/10/China-Genet...
The basic science and technology needed to start investigating large areas of the problem space has been coming online over the last decade or so. Another ten should start to see much larger research efforts and distributed througout the world.
The same as it chooses to eat and stitch up its wounds to live, Humans are wired to forever seek fixes to death where it can. And it now knows that much much more lies beyond its former magic and methods of bronze age scalpels and space age nuclear radiation, that the entire field of bioscience and bioengineering is still completely unexplored, that any given year's brick walls therein are likely penetrable. Thus it will do so, more and more now, at speed.
You think we'll be able to map the relevant structure of a human brain and convert and run it on a different substrate (e.g. a computer) BEFORE or AFTER we have biological solutions that let us live forever (barring some accident) ? Until we have the former and can run a brain as a VM with copies stashed in data centers all over the world (solar system), then biological death is still a danger (a certainty over the right time scale, although heat death gets everything in the end). Of course, with all these advances we make, other shit slows us down. Antibiotic resistance (and other treatment resistant forms of disease) are becoming a serious problem. The Earth is being ravaged, various existential threats lurk around several corners, it's all a big race really. It makes for good sci-fi.