anthropology – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:51:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Can We Live Forever? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/11/can-we-live-forever https://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/11/can-we-live-forever#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:39:50 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=9105 The Lifeboat community doesn’t need me to tell them that a growing number of scientists are dedicating their time and energy into research that could radically alter the human aging trajectory.  As a result we could be on the verge of the end of aging.  But from an anthropological and evolutionary perspective, humans have always had the desire to end aging.  Most human culture groups on the planet did this by inventing some belief structure incorporating eternal consciousness.  In my mind this is a logical consequence of A) realizing you are going to die and B) not knowing how to prevent that tragedy.  So from that perspective, I wanted to create a video that contextualized the modern scientific belief in radical life extension with the religious/mythological beliefs of our ancestors.

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