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Could we find the immortality in our life time?

JuanMardikian 2 July 3
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No. True immortality will never exist. No matter how hard you fight it, you will one day die. Future advances in medical science may allow us to extend our lives a few years or decades, but there are biological limits to how long we could live. It may be possible to extend your lifetime even longer via transhumanistic modification (cyborg, upload consciousness to a machine), but even then you are only extending your lifetime. Like it or not, we are mortal. We will die. Accept it, and live while you can.

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I wouldn't want immortality. First of all, it would get very boring after a couple hundred years, and secondly, bills always come with life and I've paid enough bills, so no thanks!

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I don't know if I really want immortality.

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I found immorality very early in my lifetime....Oh! IMMORTALITY!........ Never mind.

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I think it's very possible. While I think that Ray Kurzweil is a trifle optimistic about the time frame, I do have to concede that he's done a hell of a lot more research on the topic than I have, and more of his predictions have come true than mine.

It's not quite guaranteed immortality, but there's a few organizations working on finding a cure for aging - which means we'd be able to live for possibly hundreds of years in pre-middle-age bodies until an accident, war, or crime ends us. Most notable are the SENS foundation (Studies Enabling Negligible Senescence) and Google's Calico (CAlifornia LIfe COmpany)
[sens.org]
[calicolabs.com]

We also have Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (his wife) laying $3 Billion down with the goal of managing and ending all forms of disease by the end of this century.
[theguardian.com]

With all of that stuff going on, we don't even need to count on the Singularity arriving before we see humanity reaching the point where we can add about a year of healthy life to our lifespans for each year that passes.

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There are a bunch of people working on Whole Brain Emulation. If this works then the answer is yes. See the link.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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Ray Kurzweil thinks so.

skado Level 9 July 3, 2018
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