Soldato
If I was going to be immortal I'd like my loved ones to be immortal too. :/
I am under 30 but my viewpoint isn't due to feelings of present immortality, I simply don't want to live forever, knowing that I won't therefore isn't a source of any concern to me.
Look at every comment I've made (to you and others). I've never once suggested "forever". I've been suggesting (for realistic reasons) doubling for example your life expectancy... But you even poo-poo'd that
You did intimate that you think I "...feel immortal at the moment..." and I'm countering that whether I do or don't feel like that it isn't likely to affect my viewpoint. However I apologise for continuing as if you were suggesting that forever is the goal but I don't want to double my life expectancy, even if it can be engineered so that you live with the current quality of life of a (say) 30 year old for 50 years and then go into normal ageing. It doesn't appeal to me, as I say I am perfectly content with what should be a normal lifespan, maybe that is unusual but c'est la vie.
Personally I'd love to live as long as possible, and I can't really understand why anyone wouldn't. I don't think we're anywhere near (besides the arguement if it's possible) to some sort of "immortality" of any kind. You've got to remember it takes years for new drugs to be accepted - let alone any kind of real break through. Truth is we're animals, we get old, and we die. simples.
But both of those groups have entirely different lifestyles and reproductive strategies compared to humans. Humans in no way fit the relative reproductive rate hypothesis - it's apples and oranges.
I'm surprised that you would suggest that immortality is possible if you have studied genetics. Even if it was possible (which I hasten to add that it isn't), it wouldn't be an evolutionary stable strategy as it would be more beneficial to for humans to select for reproduction.
I think that artifical implants will help more than anything over the next 20 years. Artifical hearts would be a huge step forward if the current designs were made more reliable.
Search for a guy called "Stelarc"
He believes if we die, there is a design flaw with the body, therefore he believe in using technology, implants, upgrades to keep us alive.
As the mechanism of senescence is not understood I do not rule anything out.
Immortality is possible, i have said this before, all we need to do is reprogramme our system. To say its cant be done is so short sighted, our system repairs itself all the time, and to say that it'll be hard to do it because of the many variations but maybe its just on type of cell.
Look at it this way, they can now grow teeth from your own stem cells, so if your own body can grow its own stem cells you have already an unlimited supply, all its need s is just a reprogramme and its good to go.
ok did you hear about the guy thats has stem cell heart reprogramming, while his own heart is reparing a artifical heart has been put in place for a few months.
Look at every comment I've made (to you and others). I've never once suggested "forever". I've been suggesting (for realistic reasons) doubling for example your life expectancy... But you even poo-poo'd that
The function of our genes is to reproduce, not to live - these genes wouldn't exist and by their nature they couldn't give a fully functioning 'normal' phenotype that would be able to compete sexually. That's my final word on the matter because I view this as so trivial that it really isn't worth discussing further.
No... But to live got 200yrs instead of 70? Yes!