{"id":85815,"date":"2018-12-14T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/silicon-valleys-quest-for-immortality-and-its-worrying-sacrifices"},"modified":"2018-12-14T01:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T09:22:23","slug":"silicon-valleys-quest-for-immortality-and-its-worrying-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/silicon-valleys-quest-for-immortality-and-its-worrying-sacrifices","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s quest for immortality \u2013 and its worrying sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valleys-quest-for-immortality-and-its-worrying-sacrifices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether we will ever find a way to overcome the physiological trade offs that hold back immortality, or whether we will really be able to replicate human consciousness in a computer are questions too difficult for us yet to answer. But are those leading the charge against death at least inspiring us to lead healthy lives, or are they simply rallying against an inevitable fate?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Long read: How nature is fighting our attempts to use biohacking to live forever.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/silicon-valleys-quest-for-immortality-and-its-worrying-sacrifices-101405\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/silicon-valleys-quest-for-immort...ces-101405<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we will ever find a way to overcome the physiological trade offs that hold back immortality, or whether we will really be able to replicate human consciousness in a computer are questions too difficult for us yet to answer. But are those leading the charge against death at least inspiring us to lead healthy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1523,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-computing","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85815","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}