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Exploring Life Extension-[1:45:32]

A film by the Immortality Institute exploring various aspects of extreme life extension including cryonics (cryogenics), caloric restriction, transhumanism, and other scientific pursuits of extreme life extension.
The Vatican funded some doctor researching the possibilities of head transplants.....worked for a while on a poor monkey.....
bizinichisays...

really idealist though. gonna take a while before you can convince people that stem cells != human beings and that nanotechnology wont result in grey goo situation and that strong AI won't result in a skynet situation (if thinking of the transhumanist route). i'd give it over 100+ years

some interesting reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines
http://www.kurzweilai.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthuman_(human_evolution)

choggiesays...

yeah but considering the rate of decay and increase towards a singularity, the amount of progress made per second in every field dwarfs any past model's rate......."knowledge will be increased" as it no doubt, has in times past........

siftbotsays...

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