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The Potential Good of Human Cloning
A field of science fiction is emerging with cures and taboos concerning medical research. Cloning is a process that replicates cells, organs and even animals. The deepest truth is that it has extreme implications on health of animals and humans. It is a solution to several joint connected problems such as famine and organ trafficking. [...]
Continue reading...Modern Humans Are Integrating Technology into Biology; Intro to Transhumanism
26. May 2010
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The traditional cycle, which encloses the natural world and human beings, has evolved into a new creation with new interesting modes of communication to transmit information. The development of advanced technologies is fostering and unfolding the potentiality of telematic as well as cybernetic communication systems. The interchange of information is no longer performed solely at [...]
Continue reading...Human Preservation Possible Via Cryonic
21. May 2010
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Cryonic refers to the preservation of cells, tissues, organs and even the human body in cold sub-zero temperatures. This essay explores the belief that one day these bodies can be reanimated. Cryonics is an intricate topic, it is more interesting today than what it was in the past and it keeps on growing. Where we [...]
Continue reading...How To Attain Immortality, Sort Of
15. May 2010
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Is the pursuit of everlasting life something we all want? Based on what is understood today, humans are the only mammalian species that actually have the wisdom to perceive our mortality. For some time now, most probably from the time we became sensitive to the fact that we would someday perish; we began to think [...]
Continue reading...Ponce Wasted Time On Immortality – Live Each Precious Day Like It Is Your Last
12. May 2010
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Who among us has not thought about the cool factor of living forever? Immortality has been an obsession with many cultures throughout history and currently, though we know immortality is unreachable for some time, we want to live as long as we can. Just look at the number of health clubs popping up, the kind [...]
Continue reading...The Immorality Of Immortality – Long Live Everyone!
11. May 2010
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One can only imagine the ambiguity in everyone concerned when the population begins to load itself up with elderly, resource sucking greybeards who’s only perceived contribution to society is one of consumption and not production. What are those in charge supposed to do about this challenging ethical and moral dilemma? The frightening prospect of a [...]
Continue reading...To Age or Not to Age: a synopsis
6. May 2010
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“A lot of people think we’re biologically programmed to die, but the truth is that we’re biologically programmed for survival. There is no mechanism inside us that turns on to kill us when a certain period of time has elapsed. —Dr. Thomas Kirkwood Think about a person age 120 years old who is living similarly [...]
Continue reading...Immortality Or Longevity? I’ll Take Old Age And Good Health
29. April 2010
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Humankind for thousands of years has been on a mission to attain immortality, taking the quest quite seriously for millennia until science caught up to mythology. As medicine advanced and we learned more about our health and the fragility of the human species, increasing our life expectancy had to be good enough for all but [...]
Continue reading...Mushrooms Known As The Immortality Plant And They Make A Healthy Side Dish!
13. April 2010
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Before you haul several tons of top soil into your basement to grow your own mushrooms, eating mushrooms will not give you everlasting life, but they will help keep you healthy and aid in your longevity. The ancient Egyptians were the first society to take such a strong stand for mushrooms, originally branding them the [...]
Continue reading...Will Death Fade Out & Be Superseded By Cryonics?
10. April 2010
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Defining life and death is troubling scientists as there might soon be “no permanent turning-off bottom”. Tran humanist, biologist and life extension practitioners are referring the human body to a machine. A machine that can be repaired, modified and re-ignited once it fails. This does practically imply that humans do not need to experience a [...]
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27. May 2010
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