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Will there come a time that humans will be immortals?

Discussion in 'Science' started by LDBF, Mar 13, 2019.

  1. LDBF

    LDBF New Member

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    Science has been working very hard to address health issues that humans have. They have been experimenting on different cures for illnesses like HIV/AIDS and cancer. Yes, they have not found the cure yet but I am sure this is an ongoing process now. Given that, is it possible that humans may live forever in the thousands of years to come?
     
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    This is a very intriguing philosophic question. I would recommend reading Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harrari. It is an in dept examination of the future of the human race and the prospect of human immortality. It is a fascinating read.
     
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    Do you mean completely immortal? Or 'immortal' by which only an event of extreme violence could end a persons life?
     
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    Immortals more than likely created humans, based on some obvious clues. First, why were they making man in their image to begin with? Secondly, in the bible you read how many years people lived. 400 years, and a multitude of other numbers to describe a life span? So beings went from living hundreds of years, to create a human being that lives at the most, 100 years?


    When you look at the whole picture, the beings of biblical times may have been reversing the immortality "insanity". Possibly to experience the demise of death. As scary as that sounds. On to add, we will never really know how old the earth is actually. What was here?
     
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    I don't see that happening, because nature obeys the law of diminishing returns.
    Living things grow at first, plateau, then gradually wind down till they die.

    Even the background radiation earth emits makes it impossible for us to remain young forever — which is good, if you consider the fact that earth would be overcrowded if nobody died.
     
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    Why would humans become immortals? Except that we find some medicines that make us immortals in the future. But I believe in God. The human race will be wiped out once and for all and will be removed from existence. Hence becoming immortals is not true. We might become extinct later on. The whole world will be demolished. There will be new planet earth after that. God will be on earth. There will be a paradise.
     
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    Becoming 'immortal' in the genetic sense, isn't as far off as you may think. Aging, is, in genetic terms, the loss of information over time. Genetic information mind you, so specific nucleotide pairs being switched around, making a blank spot in the code, or, less frequently, causing the wrong amino acid to be produced which can be even worse. It can also cause cancer. Information can be lost by things like cosmic rays, UV radiation and x-rays, but even normal aspects of bodily function like free radicals or cell division. But methods of triggering the body to fix the code, which exist in us already but are only active when we are young, are being developed. Even methods of resetting the code are being found, but are far off from being commercially available. I would definitely recommend checking out this video for more on aging and how it can be slowed/reversed. Now this won't make you immune to bacterial or viral disease, but it would make you hardier. Neurological degeneration due to age would become a thing of the past, though curing genetic diseases would be a different thing entirely.

    Immortality in the sense that sitting next to a supernova and surviving or being shot in the head and recovering with no side effects, no, that is, by all our science, impossible. Although.... maybe...
     

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