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Today, we are going to take a look at the companies working on resetting cellular aging through a reprogramming approach that directly targets a core reason we age.
Reversing aging with gene therapy:
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The five main string-theory candidates may all just be pieces of a larger, cohesive whole — and M-theory could bring them together.
We will be issuing ticket refunds to attendees, who cannot attend the new date.
Berlin / Mountain View, March 12, 2020.
Forever Healthy Foundation and SENS Research Foundation have decided to reschedule Undoing Aging 2020 to October, 21–23. Following the WHO’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, we will do our share to prevent it from spreading further. We will be issuing ticket refunds to attendees, who cannot attend the new date.
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Nicola Bagalà is one of the best advocates of rejuvenation therapies that I know. I follow him since he did a blog called “Rejuvenaction” some years ago. In this video, he discusses in a profound way a very important question. I ask everybody of the rejuvenation community: don’t miss this video, let’s spread it on YouTube, Facebook and social media, and let’s give this video the audience it needs and deserves. It’s not everyday we have such opportunity.
Does biological aging qualify as a disease? Does this affect the development of therapies that treat and prevent age-related diseases? Here’s Nicola’s take on the subject.
J Gen Psychol. 2009 Jan;136:21–39. doi: 10.3200/GENP.136.1.21–40.
The authors examined the role of cognitive operations in discriminations between externally and internally generated events (e.g., reality monitoring) in healthy and pathological aging. The authors used 2 reality-monitoring distinctions to manipulate the quantity and quality of necessary cognitive operations: discriminating between I performed versus I imagined performing and between I watched another perform versus I imagined another performing. Older adults had more difficulty than did younger adults when discriminating between memories in both versions of the task. In addition, older adults with Alzheimer’s-type dementia showed marked difficulties when attributing a source to imagined actions. The authors interpret these findings in terms of an age difficulty or the failure to use cognitive operations as useful cues during source monitoring.
Subjects: consciousness, psychedelics, panpsychism, transhumanism, abolishing suffering, death and immortality.
My guest today is David Pearce, a well known philosopher and transhumanist, yet his views about consciousness set him apart from other transhumanists you might be familiar with. David believes that the nature of consciousness goes much deeper than can be explained through classical physics or from within a materialist paradigm. He suspects that consciousness may reflect an intrinsic feature of reality. Whether or not this is the case, David is confident that the unity of consciousness is facilitated by a quantum unity occurring in the brain. As a result, David is skeptical about the possibility of classical computation-based “mind uploading” or truly conscious artificial intelligences arriving in the foreseeable future. But while our descendents will continue to be biological, they will however be dramatically different to us, not only with their indefinite lifespan, physical fortitude, and resilience to disease, but most significantly, in the structure of their minds. According to David, our great grandchildren will inhabit profoundly blissful mind spaces which exist exclusively “above hedonic zero”. They will have abandoned retributive emotions such as jealousy and anger, and their ordinary conscious states will be comparable to today’s peak experiences. Most significantly for David, our descendants will set their sites on abolishing suffering in all sentient life on this planet, and finally, the entire reachable universe.
Useful video for the development of the rejuvenation industry.
Scientists today now have a better understanding of the aging process, giving us a better explanation of the cellular changes that lead our body and brain to decline as we age.
A new study shows that the effects of aging appear in the brain can appear in your 40s. Cutting carbohydrates may protect you, though.
This episode #20 of my “Pessimistic guide to Anti-Aging Research” titled “Healthspan First, Lifespan –Distant Second”.
When we are dreaming of physical immortality, we really mean not one but two very different immortalities: the one for our body, and quite another for our spirit. The body permits essentially any kind of interventions, modifications, replacements or even transformations for the sake of staying healthy and young indefinitely. In contrast, the spirit absolutely demands the preservation of our unique personalities and memories and, therefore, does not make allowances for treatments that violate this condition.
