[extropy-chat] GQ Magazine Interview - Biggest Hope for Immortality

[Chris Hibbert]

> 1. "What is the biggest problem about achieving immortality?"

The biggest problem is that it isn't a single problem.  You have to 
remove all the causes of mortality in order to achieve immortality. 
For extremely long life, you only have to solve all the systemic causes.

> 2. "What is the biggest chance, the biggest hope for immortality?"

For me, the answer is Aubrey de Gray's effort to Engineer Negligible 
Senescence (http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/).  Aubrey seems to be 
addressing enough of the disparate causes to push lifespan out a long way.

Chris
-- 
C. J. Cherryh, "Invader", on why we visit very old buildings:
       "A sense of age, of profound truths.  Respect for something
       hands made, that's stood through storms and wars and time.
       It persuades us that things we do may last and matter."

Chris Hibbert
hibbert at mydruthers.com
http://discuss.foresight.org/~hibbert