[extropy-chat] Kurzweil and aging

kevinfreels.com kevin at kevinfreels.com
Mon Dec 12 16:38:03 UTC 2005


It seems to me personally that "biological aging" occurs in spurts. A person
may go 10 years and only seem to age two, then will age what appears to be
another ten years in the next three. I have witnessed this with many family
members and friends as well as in myself.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TC" <tc at mindloss.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:05 AM
Subject: [extropy-chat] Kurzweil and aging


> I've been working my way through The Singularity is Near, and ran into
what
> struck me as a pretty bizarre claim.  An excerpt from p. 211:
>
> "When I was forty, my biological age was around thirty-eight. Although I
am
> now fifty-six, a comprehensive test of my biological aging (measuring
> various sensory sensitivities, lung capacity, reaction times, memory, and
> related tests) conducted at Grossman's longevity clinic measured my
> biological age at forty. Although there is not yet a consensus on how to
> measure biological age, my scores on these tests matched population norms
> for this age. So, according to this set of tests, I have not aged very
much
> in the last sixteen years, which is confirmed by the many blood tests I
> take, as well as the way I feel."
>
> What?  Taking that at face value would imply he'd live to a good 350 or
so,
> and I have a hard time believing that's what he's saying here.  And if
not,
> what relevance at all does that "biological age" hold?  Anyone have a
> clarification?
>
> -tc
>
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