Immortality | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Immortality


00:01:18 1 Definitions
00:01:27 1.1 Scientific
00:02:15 1.2 Religious
00:02:55 2 Alchemy
00:03:04 3 Physical immortality
00:03:44 3.1 Causes of death
00:04:07 3.1.1 Aging
00:05:10 3.1.2 Disease
00:06:21 3.1.3 Trauma
00:07:10 3.1.4 Environmental change
00:08:01 3.2 Biological immortality
00:09:48 3.2.1 Biologically immortal species
00:11:23 3.2.2 Evolution of aging
00:13:13 3.3 Prospects for human biological immortality
00:13:24 3.3.1 Life-extending substances
00:15:04 3.3.2 Technological immortality, biological machines, and  "swallowing the doctor"
00:17:40 3.3.3 Cryonics
00:18:37 3.3.4 Mind-to-computer uploading
00:20:44 3.3.5 Cybernetics
00:21:26 3.3.6 Digital immortality
00:21:35 4 Religious views
00:22:10 4.1 Ancient Greek religion
00:24:52 4.2 Buddhism
00:25:16 4.3 Christianity
00:26:49 4.4 Hinduism
00:29:02 4.5 Sikhism
00:29:39 4.6 Judaism
00:32:38 4.7 Taoism
00:33:33 4.8 Zoroastrianism
00:34:20 5 Philosophical arguments for the immortality of the soul
00:34:32 5.1 Alcmaeon of Croton
00:34:54 5.2 Plato
00:36:40 5.3 Plotinus
00:37:11 5.4 Metochites
00:37:32 5.5 Avicenna
00:37:47 5.6 Aquinas
00:38:07 5.7 Descartes
00:38:27 5.8 Leibniz
00:38:55 5.9 Moses Mendelssohn
00:39:52 6 Ethics
00:40:24 6.1 Undesirability
00:43:07 7 Sociology
00:43:53 8 Politics
00:44:40 9 Symbols
00:45:29 10 Fiction



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Immortality is eternal life, being exempt from death, unending existence. Some modern species may possess biological immortality.
Certain scientists, futurists, and philosophers have theorized about the immortality of the human body, with some suggesting that human immortality may be achievable in the first few decades of the 21st century. Other advocates believe that life extension is a more achievable goal in the short term, with immortality awaiting further research breakthroughs. The absence of aging would provide humans with biological immortality, but not invulnerability to death by disease or physical trauma; although mind uploading could solve that if it proved possible. Whether the process of internal endoimmortality is delivered within the upcoming years depends chiefly on research (and in neuron research in the case of endoimmortality through an immortalized cell line) in the former view and perhaps is an awaited goal in the latter case.In religious contexts, immortality is often stated to be one of the promises of God (or other deities) to human beings who show goodness or else follow divine law. What form an unending human life would take, or whether an immaterial soul exists and possesses immortality, has been a major point of focus of religion, as well as the subject of speculation, fantasy, and debate.