| Your post is a good example on how even highly educated people need more education, how communication is an important thing in science and how framing changes perception of everything. Anti-aging science is basically the most audacious preventative program out there. It is not really about "immortality" (even if this level of success were to be reached, one can always kill themselves, no biology will give you immunity to fast flying bullets), but an attempt to prevent or at least delay onset of a host of chronic diseases that are synonymous with aging. "but the problem is that it gets rolled up with immortality" Then don't contribute to that problem by insinuating that anti-aging is something different from healthcare. It is not, it is literally about extending healthspan, at least at this point. Rejuvenation means making people live longer by improving their metabolism etc.; how it is not healthcare in the best sense of the word (protecting health instead of treating already extant diseases)? "Everything dies, or breaks down, or decays." And yet you can keep your room tidy for long decades even if the entropy of the universe as such increases. We have a lot of self-repair mechanisms, that is why we live longer than our relatives like dogs and mice. "The universe" does not dictate to us whether to get cancer or not; some species (like whales) seem to be very resistant to cancer and it is absolutely thinkable that we could acquire this ability too, if we happen to learn enough about metabolism. Etc. etc. Human death at 80 isn't a result of laws of physics, any more than murine death at 2,5. It is a case of biological dysregulation that can possibly be fixed or at least improved, much like we improved other things about ourselves. Few of the HN crowd would proclaim wearing glasses to fix your vision to be unnatural. What we are looking for in anti-aging are "glasses for the body". |