The Pursuit of Life Spontaneous

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Aging research believes that aging should be treated of disease, not as some mysterious thing. The idea isat if you could stop some of the aging processes, or slowg them down, then you would then dramatically reduced instances of cancer and heart disease. Ilike that idea a lot. Just just try to get me to say 90 and, you know, for 89 point nine years of that, of that life span. And then like a thelittle ever ready battery just goes,. at the very definitely. So that's the pursuit of health spon.

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.