"Do You Want to Live to Be 1000?" and Why That's a Stupid Question

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Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey says although he doesn't know whether or not he would want to live to be 1000 (or even 100) years old, he does know that he would like to be able to make the choice when the time comes. "It's not about longevity," insists de Grey.

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Can we live to be 250 ... and beyond? Impossible? Not necessarily according to Aubrey de Grey, scientist, editor-in-chief of the journal Rejuvenation Research and co-author of the 2007 book Ending Aging. His ideas challenge the most basic assumption that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease — one that can be cured if it's approached as "an engineering problem." His plan calls for forestalling disease and eventually radically pushing back death.

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[TheRagtagChicken]

Holy shit, somebody's that not afraid to swear in public for once. I like this man. Full of energy and quick to throw his thoughts out there.

[yuriythebest]

@RestInPieces777 I just hope he succeeds. f*** those people that want to age- I want to explore space and when this universe reaches heat death to jump to another one and do so for eternity. it's only after your 1000th birthday that one can begin to appreciate life properly

[arenelomax]

Wow, you didn't have to be a dick about it.

[Upstreamswimmer]

Ask Rip Van Winkle a stupid question and he gets pissed. Take another nap dude.

[halflifeproductionz]

Yes!!! absolutely.

[drshlotzkin]

If aging was spread throughout those 1000 years then maybe... Think of the last millennia, how many changes humanity has gone though, living through the next would be something to witness. Well you probably would have been burned as a witch or treated as a god if you could have lived during the last millennia, haha.

[MichaelnChristine]

@shonuffLA Anyone who thinks the mind arises from anything other the brain needs to prove that they truly believe this by allowing me to put a nail through their head. If you won't do that, then you don't believe it.

[MsHojat]

@Prolite of course, but I was just talking about the natural/biological brain itself. On that note, it would be also interesting to know what sort of biological (as opposed to electronic) enhancements might be done to the brain.

[wassholm]

@shonuffLA So your assumption is unfalsifiable? From my perspective, you experiencing something that appears to you as if your "mind" is leaving your body is completely in line with the idea that said mind is an emergent property of your body. Your claim that you've "been outside of your body" does nothing on it's own to prove that that is in fact the case, let alone to falsify the idea of emergent consciousness.

It comes down to this: "astral travel" is not an experiment, and confirms nothing.

[Prolite]

@MsHojat Future technology of this century will allow our brains to access memory devices such as one's we have in a computer. This will extend our ability to remember. This is probably about 50 years from now.