Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.

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Offsajdhsays...

Aaaalmost passed this one up since I'm not sure whether de Gray is a genious, a mad scientist or both. Quite glad I took the time to hear him out though, especially the Q/A session at the end. Fascinating stuff.

Don_Juansays...

Aging is a TERMINAL disease! If we can't cure it, YOU will die of it, YOUR LOVED ONES will die of it, we will ALL die of it! The advantage of dying is ???? If this was about some new voracious disease that was killing people everywhere by causing them to deteriorate and rot away and there is no cure so YOU will also die because of it, I would imagine comments would be a bit more serious. Billions spent on political objectives, while the masses conveniently live in denial that they are dying, day by day!

The mind enslaving power of spiritual beliefs is due to a claim that the particular spiritual path (and often that none of the other spiritual paths) can erase the result of death.

dagsays...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

You forgot one salient point in your argument:
PEOPLE! Soylent Green is made of PEOPLE!

There, fixed it.>> ^Don_Juan:

Aging is a TERMINAL disease! If we can't cure it, YOU will die of it, YOUR LOVED ONES will die of it, we will ALL die of it! The advantage of dying is ???? If this was about some new voracious disease that was killing people everywhere by causing them to deteriorate and rot away and there is no cure so YOU will also die because of it, I would imagine comments would be a bit more serious. Billions spent on political objectives, while the masses conveniently live in denial that they are dying, day by day!
The mind enslaving power of spiritual beliefs is due to a claim that the particular spiritual path (and often that none of the other spiritual paths) can erase the result of death.

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