For me, the case for doing this has not sufficiently been made. I read two sets of arguments for it. On this page, essentially, “aging is the leading cause of death,” which is funny—like engagement is the leading cause of marriage—but more seriously: to attempt to abolish aging is largely about fighting death. Pointing out aging kills doesn’t take us anywhere until we’ve shown death needs to go.
On the linked page about “pro-aging trance,” it was that if I’m still asking that question, I must be in a trance, and that’s not exactly sound.
I don’t have convincing arguments for death that I’ve thought through. The ecosystem would collapse, but maybe we could prevent that by almost never having children, if we can figure a way to convince everyone. It used to be said that a new paradigm in science takes hold when all the old scientists die, but maybe we can make scientists more flexible. And more creative, as they say a new physicist (say) does all his important work in his 20′s. Anyway, it seems there are a lot of problems to address.
For me, the case for doing this has not sufficiently been made. I read two sets of arguments for it. On this page, essentially, “aging is the leading cause of death,” which is funny—like engagement is the leading cause of marriage—but more seriously: to attempt to abolish aging is largely about fighting death. Pointing out aging kills doesn’t take us anywhere until we’ve shown death needs to go.
On the linked page about “pro-aging trance,” it was that if I’m still asking that question, I must be in a trance, and that’s not exactly sound.
I don’t have convincing arguments for death that I’ve thought through. The ecosystem would collapse, but maybe we could prevent that by almost never having children, if we can figure a way to convince everyone. It used to be said that a new paradigm in science takes hold when all the old scientists die, but maybe we can make scientists more flexible. And more creative, as they say a new physicist (say) does all his important work in his 20′s. Anyway, it seems there are a lot of problems to address.