life extension
description: scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
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Iain M Banks - The Culture complete works
by Iain M. Banks · 5,095pp · 1,429,463 words
had had any sort of existence before that: no life as a gifted academic in a free, liberated society with superconductors, space elevators, AIs and life-extension treatments, and no few months spent in the utter ghastliness of the virtual Hell, accumulating the evidence to present to an unbelieving world – an unbelieving
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
by Sebastian Mallaby; · 30 Mar 2026 · 607pp · 161,998 words
all. The “bet” option was for moon shots unrelated to Google’s core business, he said—projects such as autonomous cars or the science of life extension. Artificial intelligence did not belong in that bucket. To the contrary, AI was destined to become strategically important to Google’s flagship products, such as
Smart Grid Standards
by Takuro Sato · 17 Nov 2015
would have a bit longer term. Upon fulfilling the debt service, the only remaining costs are of Operation and Maintenance (O&M), and of the life extension of the equipment and structures. Once the debt is repaid the cost of power is reduced significantly. For example, the cost of power drops to
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama · 29 Sep 2014 · 828pp · 232,188 words
Society (New York: Free Press, 1995). 14. See Fukuyama, Origins of Political Order, pp. 460–68. 15. I discuss the social and political consequences of life extension in Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), pp. 57–71. 16. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
The Transhumanist Reader
by Max More and Natasha Vita-More · 4 Mar 2013 · 798pp · 240,182 words
II 41 A Letter to Mother Nature 42 Progress and Relinquishment Index About the Editors Max More, PhD is President and CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world’s leading cryonics organization. An internationally acclaimed strategic philosopher and co-founder of the first explicitly transhumanist organization, Extropy Institute, Dr. More
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(Oxford University Press, 2000); and Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 1990). Max More, PhD, is President of Alcor Life Extension Foundation and Co-Editor of The Transhumanist Reader. He authored “The Overhuman in the Transhuman” (Journal of Evolution and Technology 21, 2010); “True Transhumanism” (Global
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on to the cyborg and the transhuman and asks: “What might be concerns of artistic works and design-based practices that approach human enhancement and life extension?” In his essay “Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up,” philosopher Nick Bostrom notes that extreme human enhancement could result in
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engineering, cognitive science and the neurosciences, neural-computer interface research, materials science, artificial intelligence, the array of sciences and technologies involved in regenerative medicine and life extension, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. A genuine understanding of the goals and potentials of transhumanism requires taking an interdisciplinary view, integrating the physical and social sciences
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Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829–1903), a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher and participant in the Russian cosmism movement, who advocated using scientific methods to achieve radical life extension, physical immortality, resurrection of the dead, and space and ocean colonization. According to Fedorov, the evolutionary process led to increased intelligence culminating, so far, in
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sense of the possible. Transhumanism as we know it today finally began to take form in the latter part of the twentieth century. Champions of life extension played a central and persistent part in this development. Not all advocates of extending the maximum human lifespan had well-developed ideas beyond that single
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at the point of clinical death, his 1972 Man into Superman explored other transformative possibilities, and explicitly used the term “transhuman.” Another enduring supporter of life extension and cryonics, Saul Kent, not only wrote practically and speculatively about extending the human lifespan, but also about other possibilities in his 1974 book, Future
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– Why We Not Just Want It, but Need It.” http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Texts/MorphologicalFreedom.htm. Retrieved November 21, 2011. Stambler, Ilia (2010) “Life Extension: A Conservative Enterprise? Some Fin-de-Siècle and Early Twentieth-Century Precursors of Transhumanism.” Journal of Evolution and Technology 21/1 (March), pp. 13–26
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potential media for artistic options, will expand in creating new practices for designing biosynthetic bodies, sensorial extension, cognitive enrichment, gender diversity, identity transfer, and radical life extension. The modification of biological life systems, from single cells to organisms, increases the transdisciplinarity of the arts and sciences. As noted, some practices have reached
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developed approach to human enhancement reaches beyond electronic media, bioart, and immersive design. I propose that what is needed is a field focusing on radical life extension, especially at the convergence of NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, infotechnology, and cognitive science). These technologies and the supporting science relate to the push beyond limited lifespan
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). Concluding Thoughts We could start off asking the question: What might be concerns of artistic works and design-based practices that approach human enhancement and life extension? Addressing this question would imply that possible questions from artistic practices are different than the questions tackled by science. It also implies that there are
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is now a developed field of study, and bioart has become a promising field within the arts curriculum, is there potential that human enhancement and life extension might follow suit? Possibly. Relatedly, one might ask: Is there a rapport between aesthetics and enhancement which makes enhancement superficial and artificial, rather than being
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getting faster, both within Western societies and between rich and poor societies. Especially regarding technologies that may affect future generations such as germline therapy or life extension it is important to remember that the time constant of technology diffusion appears to be much shorter than the human generation time. Issues of value
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experimental and theory work on a greatly accelerated schedule. We expect these efforts will ultimately lead to the design and manufacture of medical nanorobots for life extension, perhaps during the 2020s. Conclusions This new medical technology needs to be moved forward as quickly as possible. Every year we delay, 52 million of
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.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/SayAh/index.html. Freitas, Robert A. Jr., (2002) “Death is an Outrage!” Invited Lecture delivered at the Fifth Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension, November, 16, Newport Beach, CA. http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/DeathIsAnOutrage.htm. Freitas, Robert A. Jr., (2003) “Nanomedicine,” KurzweilAI.net, November 17. http://www.kurzweilai
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a larger context to consider. The development of SIM does not take place in isolation, nor does work on any other ambitious goal, from biological life-extension to artificial general intelligence. If SIM is not achieved by the time another intelligence appears that is competitive with ours in terms of its ability
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: Oxford University Press. Rose, Michael R., et al. (2010) “Evolutionary Nutrigenomics.” In G.M. Fahy et al., eds., The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension. Berlin: Springer. Rose, Michael R. and Burke, Molly K. (2011) “Genomic Croesus: Experimental Evolutionary Genetics of Aging.” Experimental Gerontology 46, pp. 397–403. Sisson, Mark
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would it take to achieve successful cryonics reanimation of a fully functioning human brain, with memories intact? A conversation at the Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler sparked an email discussion (November 23, 2002) of this question. They agreed that, despite the challenges, the brain’s
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after death through religious and spiritual processes rail against the quest to achieve superlongevity here in the world we experience and know exists. Critics of life extension invariably exhume a few of the same arguments over and over again. Among these are the overpopulation, resources, boredom, and meaninglessness arguments. The essays in
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think he is right are so key to the arguments involved that I feel he is genuinely susceptible to persuasion of the merits of extreme life extension, albeit not of many other aspects of modern or anticipated biomedical modifications of our natural lives. It is seldom effective to overstate one’s disagreements
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of his opposition to such work would have considerable policy consequences. The most straightforward way to explain what I like about Kass’s views on life extension is to refer not to their most high-profile exposition, the chapter “Ageless Bodies” from the President’s Council report (2003), but rather to two
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these is an essay titled “The Wisdom of Repugnance,” which first appeared in the journal The New Republic (Kass 1997). This essay was not about life extension but about human reproductive cloning, and needless to say I find its thrust flawed in many ways which I will not enumerate here. But the
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essentially unchanging? Hurlbut has also made a statement that encapsulates the bioconservative fallacy as I see it. He asserts that he is “not convinced” that life extension would be good for us – and leaves it at that. He thus insinuates, without quite saying, that we should adopt the precautionary principle with regard
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to life extension and avoid developing it because we are uncertain whether it will benefit mankind. But this is utterly without justification. In what other context would we
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for his progressive views – President Bush – stated that it is best to “err on the side of life.” Yet those who doubt the benefits of life extension argue that condemning 100,000 people every day to an unnecessarily (as it will eventually be) early death on the basis of their age is
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a policy that needs no more justification than an uncertainty regarding whether life extension will be good for us. In responding to the suggestion that Kass’s “wisdom of repugnance” actually constitutes a strong argument for
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life extension, Hurlbut has noted that “Young children love their grandparents. They don’t find them repulsive. They see in them the beauty of the generative spirit,
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he is against extended lives per se or only against an abrupt extension of life expectancy. He has responded by saying that he regards extreme life extension as “biologically unlikely.” Well, if it is so unlikely, why did the President’s Council devote 15 percent of their “Beyond Therapy” report to it
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.N.J. (2004) “Leon Kass: Quite Substantially Right.” Rejuvenation Res 7/2, pp. 89–91. de Grey, Aubrey D.N.J. (2004) “Three Self-Evident Life-Extension Truths.” Rejuvenation Res 7/3, pp. 165–167. de Grey, Aubrey D.N.J. (2004) “Aging, Childlessness, or Overpopulation: The Future’s Right to Choose
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any wonder that cryonics is unpopular? It is a failure by definition! Is this view biologically justified? In the 1980s another cryonics organization, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, adopted a different approach to cryonics. Under the leadership of cardiothoracic surgery researcher Jerry Leaf and dialysis technician Mike Darwin Alcor brought methods of
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. 223–229. Alcor staff (1984) “Histological Study of a Temporarily Cryopreserved Human.” Cryonics (November), pp. 13–32. Alcor’s Pioneering Total Body Washout Experiments. Alcor Life Extension Foundation http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/tbw.html. Bellamy, R., Safar, P., Tisherman, S.A., Basford, R., Bruttig, S.P., Capone, A., Dubick, M
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Barbiturate Overdose Coma with a Prolonged Isoelectric Electroencephalogram.” Neurology 18, pp. 456–460. Darwin, Michael G. (1977) “The Anabolocyte: A Biological Approach to Repairing Cryoinjury.” Life Extension Magazine (July/August), pp. 80–3. Darwin, Michael G. (1991) “Cold War: The Conflict Between Cryonicists and Cryobiologists.” Cryonics (June, July, August). Darwin, Michael G
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Max More In the past, it was possible to approach transhumanism as primarily involving philosophical discussion and technological speculation. While transhumanist goals such as radical life extension, uploading, and cognitive, sensory, and physical enhancement were speculative they were also considered scientifically feasible, even if the technologies to achieve those goals appeared remote
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same time, we see the convergence of biotechnology and nanotechnology, improvements in prosthetics, and growing success in restoring senses. As their core ideas about radical life extension and human enhancement have spread and become more influential, transhumanists have felt less need for mere envisioning and advocacy and have shifted the emphasis to
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, has declared, “There is no known social good coming from the conquest of death.” Callahan added, “The worst possible way to resolve [the question of life extension] is to leave it up to individual choice” (cited in Bailey 1999). When asked if the government has a right to tell its citizens that
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in keeping with traditional understandings of worthwhile, reasonable human values and interests. The most fundamental of interests – the preservation of life – is certainly pursued by life extension. The pursuit of knowledge is obviously relevant to cognitive enhancement. Better health through organ replacement or cybernetic implants is too obvious to mention. And we
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. 10 See for instance, the President’s Council on Bioethics 2003; Sandel 2009. Or, for example, Dr. William Hurlbut in the 2006 documentary film, Exploring Life Extension. 11 Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology (Rose and Rose 2000) compiles critical objections to biological determinism and reductionism generally put forward by an
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, James (2004) Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press. Klein, Bruce, dir. (2006) Exploring Life Extension: Interviews with more than 50 Scientists and Futurists. Immortality Institute. Klerkx, Greg (2006) “The Transhumanists as Tribe.” In Paul Miller and James Wilsdon, eds., Better
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Humans? The Politics of Human Enhancement and Life Extension. London: Demos. Kubrick, Stanley, dir. (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey. MGM. Kurzweil, Ray (2005) The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Viking
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/vi.html. 1 Damien Broderick’s book about the Singularity is The Spike: Accelerating Into The Unimaginable Future (Broderick 1997). His forthcoming book about drastic life extension and the impact of science on society is The Last Mortal Generation (Broderick 1999). References Asimov, Isaac (1991) Foundation’s Edge. New York: Spectra. Brin
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), McKibben states without feeling any need for supporting argument that Robert Ettinger and Hans Moravec and Gregory Stock and Robert Freitas and I advocate healthy life extension without our understanding how “weird or gross or boring” living forever would be (2003: 156). Indeed, he assumes we are afraid of dying, rather than
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inevitability information-theoretic criterion intelligence explosion Joy, Bill Kahneman, Daniel Kass, Leon Koene, Randal Kurzweil, Ray La Mettrie, Julien Offray de Landauer, Thomas life expansion life extension lifespan Locke, John Margulis, Lynn Markram, Henry McKibben, Bill meaningfulness memory computing long-term short-term Merkle, Ralph Metzinger, Thomas Miah, Andy Miller, Mark mind
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Dec 2010 · 836pp · 158,284 words
years. One explanation researchers have proposed is that the regular ofuro, or hot bath at bedtime, increases melatonin release and is related to mechanisms for life extension. Paradoxically, according to one of the Stanford professors who taught the sleep biology class I took circa 2002, cold is a more effective signaler (aka
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-recipient of 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. —Socrates This will be the shortest chapter on life-extension ever written. Let it begin, as all good short chapters do, with a story of two monkeys: Canto and Owen. Housed at the University of
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who got water. As Edgar notes in King Lear, “Ripeness is all.” You don’t get to ripeness by eating apple peel for breakfast.… When life extension supplants life quality as a goal, you get the desolation of Canto the monkey. Living to 120 holds zero appeal for me. Canto looks like
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goal is to live as long as possible, there is a long list, an endless list, of things to avoid. The good news is that life-extension need not be complicated. For the gents, it may be as simple as blocking a few websites and curbing a little maleness. The pro-ejaculation
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most effective natural means of protecting against breast cancer” due to the hormone hCG. Should you therefore have children before age 20? I suggest that life-extension is not a good enough reason, particularly since another life is involved. This option is therefore omitted from our list. Separating the wheat from the
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is why I’ll use resveratrol short-term at higher doses for endurance while tracking blood markers, but I won’t use it indefinitely for life-extension. Telomerase activators like TA-65, another example, are purported to extend our chromosomal countdown clocks called “telomeres.” TA-65 can cost up to $15,000
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using. All of them are low-cost, low-tech, and low-risk. Most of them also provide athletic or body composition benefits, even if their life-extension effects are later debunked: 1. CYCLES OF 5–10 GRAMS OF CREATINE MONOHYDRATE (COST: $20/MONTH) Creatine monohydrate, popular among power athletes since its commercialization
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to ensure no kidney problems. Complications are rare, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Nowhere is this truer than in life- extension. 2. INTERMITTENT FASTING (IF) AND PROTEIN CYCLING (COST: FREE) What if poor, hungry Canto only needed to fast on occasion to extend his life? Constant
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, which typically appears starting in the third week and averages one pound of loss per week thereafter.3 Some research suggests IF confers the same life-extension benefits as caloric restriction only when calories are consumed during daylight hours. This would, if accurate, make the Fast-5 better for fat loss than
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Forever by Ray Kurzweil (www.fourhourbody.com/transcend) Kurzweil, called the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison” by Inc. magazine, proposes that those interested in “radical life extension” should make it their immediate goal to live through the next 20 or so years, in order to see advances like DNA reprogramming and submicroscopic
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest · 17 Oct 2014 · 292pp · 85,151 words
further than anyone ever imagined. Google[X] offers two fascinating new extensions to the traditional approach. First, it aims for moonshot-quality ideas (e.g., life extension, autonomous vehicles, Google Glass, smart contact lenses, Project Loon, etc.). Second, unlike traditional corporate labs that focus on existing markets, Google[X] combines breakthrough technologies
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words
will result from a single trend in to day's world as if nothing else will change. A good example is the concern that radical life extension will result in overpopulation and the exhaustion of limited material resources to sustain human life, which ignores comparably radical wealth creation from nanotechnology and strong
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underlying life, we are starting to learn to reprogram our biology to achieve the virtual elimination of disease, dramatic expansion of human potential, and radical life extension. Hans Moravec points out, however, that no matter how successfully we fine-tune our DNA-based biology, humans will remain "second-class robots," meaning that
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: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, which I coauthored with Terry Grossman, M.D., a leading longevity expert, we discuss these three bridges to radical life extension (today's knowledge, biotechnology, and nanotechnology).12 I wrote there: "Whereas some of my contemporaries may be satisfied to embrace aging gracefully as part of
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be pieced together."19 De Grey believes we'll demonstrate "robustly rejuvenated" mice—mice that are functionally younger than before being treated and with the life extension to prove it—within ten years, and he points out that this achievement will have a dramatic effect on public opinion. Demonstrating that we can
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for the societal effects that proponents of this theory have claimed, so the hypothesis does not appreciably challenge the conclusion that genes that supported significant life extension were not selected for. Aging is not a single process but involves a multiplicity of changes. De Grey describes seven key aging processes that encourage
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. Evidence from the genome project indicates that no more than a few hundred genes are involved in the aging process. By manipulating these genes, radical life extension has already been achieved in simpler animals. For example, by modifying genes in the C. elegans worm that control its insulin and sex-hormone levels
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involves harnessing biology's own reproductive mechanisms in the form of cloning. Cloning will be a key technology—not for cloning actual humans but for life-extension purposes, in the form of "therapeutic cloning." This process creates new tissues with "young" telomere-extended and DNA-corrected cells to replace without surgery defective
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to confront and resolve each such problem . ·We can apply the enormous leverage provided by the acceleration of technology. A notable example is achieving radical life extension through "a bridge to a bridge to a bridge" (applying today's knowledge as a bridge to biotechnology, which in turn will bridge us to
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era of nanotechnology).4 This offers a way to live indefinitely now, even though we don't yet have all the knowledge necessary for radical life extension. In other words we don't have to solve every problem today. We can anticipate the capability of technologies that are coming—in five years
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—to another substrate. Although the new entity would act just like me, the question remains: is it really me? Some of the scenarios for radical life extension involve reengineering and rebuilding the systems and subsystems that our bodies and brains comprise. In taking part in this reconstruction, do I lose my self
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": opposition to any change in the nature of what it means to be human (for example, changing our genes and taking other steps toward radical life extension). This effort, too, will ultimately fail, however, because the demand for therapies that can overcome the suffering, disease, and short lifespans inherent in our version
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the American Chemical Society 123.9 (2001): 2058–59. 148. Robert A. Freitas, Jr. "Death Is an Outrage!" presented at the Fifth AlcorConference on Extreme Life Extension, Newport Beach, California, November 16, 2002, http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/DeathIsAnOutrage.htm. 149. For example, the fifth annual BIOMEMS conference, June 2003, San Jose
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://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/sensov.ppt. 39. Robert A. Freitas Jr., "Death Is an Outrage!" presentation at the fifth Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension, Newport Beach, Calif., November 16, 2002, http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/DeathIsAnOutrage.htm, published on KurzweilAI.net January 9, 2003: http://www.KurzweilAI.net/articles
Fix Your Gut: The Definitive Guide to Digestive Disorders
by John Brisson · 12 Apr 2014
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024
, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. To an extent we can reduce these risks through lifestyle, diet, and supplementation—what I call the first bridge to radical life extension.[106] But those can only delay the inevitable. This is why life expectancy gains in developed countries have slowed since roughly the middle of the
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genetic mutations, reduced telomere length, and the uncontrolled cell division that causes cancer.[110] In the 2030s we will reach the third bridge of radical life extension: medical nanorobots with the ability to intelligently conduct cellular-level maintenance and repair throughout our bodies. By some definitions, certain biomolecules are already considered nanobots
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the next twenty years of advances will be roughly like the last twenty, but this ignores the exponential nature of the process. Knowledge that radical life extension is close at hand is spreading, but most people—both doctors and patients—are still unaware of this grand transformation in our ability to reprogram
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this chapter, the 2030s will bring another health revolution, which my book on health (coauthored with Terry Grossman, MD) calls the third bridge to radical life extension: medical nanorobots. This intervention will vastly extend the immune system. Our natural immune system, which includes T cells that can intelligently destroy hostile microorganisms, is
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remaining life expectancy for each calendar year that passes. The sands of time will start running in rather than out. The fourth bridge to radical life extension will be the ability to essentially back up who we are, just as we do routinely with all of our digital information. As we augment
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equity and inequality. A common challenge to these predictions about longevity is that only the wealthy will be able to afford the technologies of radical life extension. My response is to point out the history of the cell phone. You indeed had to be wealthy to have a mobile phone as recently
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achieved in the coming decades—that over-sixty-fives will constitute 22 percent of the population by 2050.[70] If I am correct that significant life-extension technologies will become a reality by then, the proportion of senior citizens will be even higher. In absolute terms, though, the labor force itself is
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they are adults? Or their own children? Applying Nanotechnology to Health and Longevity As I discussed in my life extension book Transcend,[93] we are now in the later stages of the first generation of life extension, which involves applying the current class of pharmaceutical and nutritional knowledge to overcoming health challenges. This has
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the basis for the regimen I’ve followed for my own health in recent decades. In the 2020s we are starting the second phase of life extension, which is the merger of biotechnology with AI. This will involve developing and testing breakthrough treatments in digital biology simulators. Early stages of this have
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techniques we will be able to discover very powerful new therapies in days rather than years. The 2030s will usher in the third phase of life extension, which will be to use nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of our biological organs altogether. As we enter this phase, we’ll greatly extend our
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to our intuitive linear thinking—we have solid reasons to see this as a likely future. I’ve had many conversations over the years about life extension, and the idea often meets resistance. People become upset when they hear of an individual whose life has been cut short by a disease, yet
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elaborated on in chapter 4, most such afflictions would be alleviated. That is, extending human life would also mean vastly improving it. To imagine how life extension improves quality of life, it’s helpful to think back to a century ago. In 1924 life expectancy in the United States averaged about 58
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1982.[101] But medicine saw so many improvements during that interval that many of these individuals lived into the 2000s or 2010s. Thanks to this life extension, they got to enjoy retirements during an age with cheap air travel, safer cars, cable television, and the internet. For babies born in 2024, the
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speed up the body’s natural healing and repair. If optimizing hormones could make our sleep more efficient,[112] that would in effect be “backdoor life extension.” If you just go from needing eight hours of sleep a night to seven hours, that adds as much waking existence to the average life
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nature of what it means to be human.[82] This would include modifying our genes and our protein folding, and taking other steps toward radical life extension. This opposition will ultimately fail, however, because the demand for therapies that can overcome the pain, disease, and short life spans inherent in our version
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1.0 bodies will ultimately prove irresistible. When people are presented with the prospect of radical life extension, two objections are quickly raised. The first is the probability of running out of material resources to support an expanding biological population. We frequently hear
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, we have nearly ten thousand times the sunlight we need to theoretically meet all of our current energy needs.[83] The second objection to radical life extension is that we will become profoundly bored doing the same things over and over again for centuries. But in the 2020s we will have virtual
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AR connected directly to our nervous systems by nanobots feeding signals to our senses. We will thereby have radical life expansion in addition to radical life extension. We will inhabit vast virtual and augmented realities limited only by our imagination—which itself will be expanded. Even if we lived hundreds of years
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-world-population.pdf; Lindgren, “Life Expectancy at Birth.” BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 105 Terry Grossman and I describe the first, second, and third bridges to life extension in more detail in our 2009 book Transcend. That was a book about health and wellness, so I describe the fourth bridge—extending our consciousness
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as of 2023 there is active research working toward addressing all of them. This doesn’t have to immediately totally cure aging to allow radical life extension—the tipping point will be when, every year, medicine adds at least one additional year to our life expectancy, allowing people to get ahead of
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), 164 Age of Spiritual Machines, The (Kurzweil), 4, 8–9, 13, 63, 112, 164 aging, 5, 192, 255–57, 259 slowing and reversing. See radical life extension agricultural runoff, 180, 181 agriculture, 169–70, 171, 201–3, 227 farm labor, 199, 201–3, 203, 219 vertical, 169, 171, 178, 179–83 Agüera
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–9, 214, 229–30, 253. See also self-driving cars availability heuristic, 121, 152 avatars, 100–105, 263 axons, 89 B Babbage, Charles, 293 backdoor life extension, 260 bacteria, 177, 178, 237, 262, 274 bad news bias, 114–16, 119–20 Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 217 banking, 198, 209 Bardem, Javier
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rate, 117 social safety net, 223, 223 cancer AI and, 278–79 biosimulation and, 190–91, 192, 241 detection, 243 immunotherapy for, 190, 227, 239 life extension and, 134, 135, 190–91, 192, 255, 256–57, 260 nanotechnology for, 255, 256–57, 260 capital and labor, 209–10 carbon, 7, 81, 96
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, 246 Fiala, John, 104 Fifth Epoch. See epochs filtration technology, 178 financial crisis of 2008, 139 firearms, 3D-printed, 186–87 first bridge to radical life extension, 134–35, 255, 348n First Epoch. See epochs FitMyFoot, 184, 208 fixed action patterns, 32–33 Fleabag (TV show), 220 Flinders University, 237 floating-point
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(intelligence explosion), 60–61 Forbes, 213 foreign language translation, 48, 222 fossil fuels, 59, 209–10 replacement of, 154, 172–76 fourth bridge to radical life extension, 136, 192–93, 348n Fourth Epoch. See epochs fractals, 86 France Asilomar Principles, 280 crime, 149 education and literacy, 125, 125, 127 nuclear weapons, 269
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life expectancy, 62, 133–36, 255–56, 258 technological progress and, 114–15, 135–36 in UK, 114–15, 136 in US, 137, 216 life extension. See radical life extension LifeStraw, 178 literacy, 111–12, 122–27 growth since 1820, 125 rates by country, 125 Little Sophia (robot), 101–2 locked-in syndrome, 76
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and sticky fingers problem, 249–50 gray goo, 249, 275–78 medical, 192, 251, 257, 258–63, 276–77 molecular assemblers, 249–50, 252 radical life extension, 135–36 risks and perils, 273–78 self-replication of, 5, 30, 96, 246–49, 252, 260, 273–75 nanocrystals, 172 Nanosystems (Drexler), 250 nanotechnology
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–21 quantum computing, 251 quantum dots, 172 quantum emulation, 104 quarks, 97 qubits, 251 R racial disparities and policing, 150 Radical Abundance (Drexler), 169 radical life extension, 189–94, 255–65 first bridge to, 134–35, 255, 348n second bridge to, 135, 348n third bridge to, 135–36, 191–92, 348n fourth
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, 87 scaling, 47, 54 solar electricity, 174–75 scanning tunneling microscope, 251 Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 100 Scientific American, 247 Searle, John, 48 second bridge to radical life extension, 135, 348n Second Epoch. See epochs Sedol, Lee, 41 selection bias, 98–99, 114–15 self-assembly, 249–50 self-assured destruction (SAD), 270 self
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, 276, 278 theory of everything, 87 theory of mind, 37, 56 “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (Feynman), 246 third bridge to radical life extension, 135–36, 191–92, 348n Third Epoch. See epochs thought-to-text technology, 70–71 3D printing, 144, 178, 183–89 of buildings, 170, 187
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