{"id":84383,"date":"2018-11-02T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/choosing-health-early-on"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:02:23","slug":"choosing-health-early-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/choosing-health-early-on","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Health Early On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/choosing-health-early-on.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A thought experiment to see whether life extension might contribute to your happiness.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today, we\u2019re going to engage in a thought experiment. We\u2019re going to imagine a world with some sort of antechamber to life in which you hang around as some sort of disembodied entity before you are born. (Some people actually believe in something like that, but we won\u2019t go there; it\u2019s just a thought experiment.) <\/p>\n<p><b>The Choice to Be Born<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s suppose that, as a disembodied soul, you have a somewhat human outlook on things: you want to enjoy new experiences, avoid unpleasant circumstances, and so forth. Let us further suppose that you have a choice over being born or not and that someone comes along and tries to get you sold on the idea of being born. Neither of you can predict the future and know exactly how good or bad a life you would have, but you do know the gist of it\u2014what stages you need to go through, what issues may manifest, etc.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/choosing-health-early-on\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/choosing-health-early-on\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought experiment to see whether life extension might contribute to your happiness. Today, we\u2019re going to engage in a thought experiment. We\u2019re going to imagine a world with some sort of antechamber to life in which you hang around as some sort of disembodied entity before you are born. (Some people actually believe in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}