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"Controversial theorist Aubrey de Grey insists that we are within reach of an engineered cure for aging. Are you prepared to live forever? Aubrey de Grey proposes to tinker with the essential biochemical pathways that drive the aging process. De Grey contends that we know enough to intelligently map out a program of anti-aging intervention research such that sometime in the next 100 years, and quite possibly much sooner, the average human life span may be 5,000 years, a figure brought short of outright immortality by the small number of people who will die from non-age-related diseases and everybody else who, given the boggling amount of time available to them on the planet, will eventually do something unlucky or stupid like walk in front of a moving rocket car. In de Grey time, the 400-year span between Shakespeare's England and today would be but the blink of an eye.
A childless only child of apparently inexhaustible intellectual energy, de Grey is convinced that the world is his sandbox, and he can’t find any good reason why it shouldn’t remain so. If the next million days could be like this one, drinking good ale on the Cam, talking shop, and getting down to a serious night’s work, that would be heaven, or its functional equivalent. The life spans he foretells would seem to suit him best of all. “It’s just inconceivable to me that one could ever run out of things to do,” he says. “All one needs is the right mental capacities.” I tell him, “You are the prototype for the new eternal man.” He doesn’t bat an eye. “That’s right,” he agrees".
Following the link to: "How Would Transhumanists Modify the Body?": "These technology-over-biology advocates call themselves transhumanists. Some are focused on redesigning the human body, adding built-in telephones, multiple joints or even wings. Others are more interested in downloading their minds so that they can spend eternity in a robotic body". Popular Science recommends a few well known transhumanist web sites.
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Entropy-driven atomic mechanics causes construction of more complexity. There are infinite universes. There is one God. It all makes perfect sense. A culture of love and life is the only answer.
Ed: I am one of those who think hat if something exists in our universe, sooner or later it shall be explained, and tamed, by science. Including afterlife and supernatural experience of course. But perhaps the explanation, when one is found, can be much stranger that whatever we are able to understand or even imagine at our current stage of evolution. Let's not forget Clarke's Third Law. This stranger-than-you-can-imagine realities can accommodate what we call "supernatural" today, including perhaps some form of afterlife.
Mutually exclusive? I don't think so. Since every physical state of existence is probably doomed to end sooner or later (accidents, voluntary death, ... the thermal death of the universe), we are just talking of living (much) longer, not forever. Afterlife may well begin after that.
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A thousand years from now, historians may posit the biggest factor in human history was the human consciousness of their own mortality. A lifespan of 70 years will seem hopelessly short and historians will marvel that our race accomplished anything at all when all of us lived under the threat of such imminent doom.
It's too bad most proponents of life-extension technology are atheists, with a materialist view of the afterlife, i.e., they don't think there is one. Must wishing to extend our time here on earth be mutually exclusive with having faith in the afterlife?
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