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Immortalism is Impossible To Prove

Monday, July 26, 2010

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Immortalism is Impossible To Prove

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 [...]

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Weird Science: Longevity Experts Vacillating While The Immortality Iron Is Hot

Friday, June 25, 2010

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Weird Science: Longevity Experts Vacillating While The Immortality Iron Is Hot

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 [...]

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Our Creative Mind Is Altering People’s Perception on Aging Forever

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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Our Creative Mind Is Altering People’s Perception on Aging Forever

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 [...]

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Cyberspace Can Emancipate Us from Death

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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Cyberspace Can Emancipate Us from Death

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 [...]

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Transhumanism v.s Humanism; the Gate-way To Longevity

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Transhumanism v.s Humanism; the Gate-way To Longevity

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 [...]

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Modern Humans Are Integrating Technology into Biology; Intro to Transhumanism

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Modern Humans Are Integrating Technology into Biology; Intro to Transhumanism

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 [...]

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Human Cybernetics And its Relation To Longevity Progress In The Near Future

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Human Cybernetics And its Relation To Longevity Progress In The Near Future

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 [...]

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How To Attain Immortality, Sort Of

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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How To Attain Immortality, Sort Of

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 [...]

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Ponce Wasted Time On Immortality – Live Each Precious Day Like It Is Your Last

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Ponce Wasted Time On Immortality – Live Each Precious Day Like It Is Your Last

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 [...]

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The Immorality Of Immortality – Long Live Everyone!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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The Immorality Of Immortality – Long Live Everyone!

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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