Ben Best, who wrote for The Scientific Conquest of Death: some problems with Immortalism, was a person with fantasy who believed in hypnotic power, and more intriguingly extreme longevity. With no limits on his potential longevity, he doubted the possibility of achieving immortalism. The very fact that “Forever” is more than a long time, it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 25, 2010
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Humans have it pretty good these days. Our offspring and theirs will have it even better still. Our life expectancy is hovering around the eighty year mark on average for a developed nation and it is heading upwards. The longer we can remain above ground, the better the odds are that we will be walking [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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The spirit of optimism is expanding widely in our age of unreason. This is bringing change in practices, ideologies, action and a more universal attitude towards science and technology. Apartheid, communist societies and slavery are a few examples of obsolete social, economic and political systems. They are being left behind with all its sorrows and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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Life is a journey of desirable and undesirable events. Remember, while you are reading this sentence, more than 10 people will pass away. This includes helpless children as well as those suffering from an extreme agony. In the span of a day, 2,700 children are killed by measles; 6,000 children die from diarrhea; 1,400 women [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 3, 2010
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The taken for granted issues are nowadays more frequently being challenged. As it was said in the film by Steve Martin, “The Man with Two Brains “You’re playing God”, “Somebody has to!”” this shows how perceptions are altering. The debate whether we should or should not play “GOD” is an increasingly tense topic. Many humanists [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 26, 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...Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Human Cybernetics is a field of study. The underlining principle in cybernetics is a goal-oriented approach to achieve objectives via communication. A machine could imitate human behavior and even be integrated into our biology system. How our brain works through communication with organs and emitting enzymes to displaying emotions and creating body movements are all [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 15, 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...Wednesday, May 12, 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...Tuesday, May 11, 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 [...]
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