129. Immortality | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2017-10-18

Coping with the knowledge of our own mortality is often tricky – what if we just tried a different angle? #YOLO

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-Links for the Curious-

Terror Management Theory Overview (Wikipedia) – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory#Criticisms

Is Death Always a Misfortune? (SEP, 2014) – plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/#DeaAlwMis

Descartes projected that his newfound rationalist version of medicine would result in people living a thousand years. Let’s just say he was optimistic. (Shapin, 2000) – https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3219884/shapin-descartes_the_doctor_2000.pdf?sequence=2 

Scientists up stakes in bet on whether humans will live to 150 (Fleming, 2016) – www.nature.com/news/scientists-up-stakes-in-bet-on-whether-humans-will-live-to-150-1.20818

Some history of hype regarding the human genome project and genomics (Eisen, 2014) – phylogenomics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/some-history-of-hype-regarding-human.html

Evidence for a limit to human lifespan (Dong et al, 2016) – www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7624/full/nature19793.html

Human age limit claim sparks debate (Geddes, 2016) – www.nature.com/news/human-age-limit-claim-sparks-debate-1.20750

Many possible maximum lifespan trajectories (Hughes & Hekimi, 2017) – www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7660/full/nature22786.html?foxtrotcallback=true

Evolution of the human lifespan and diseases of aging: Roles of infection, inflammation, and nutrition (Finch, 2009) – www.pnas.org/content/107/suppl_1/1718.full

Lust for life: breaking the 120-year barrier in human ageing (Roy, 2013) – theconversation.com/lust-for-life-breaking-the-120-year-barrier-in-human-ageing-14911

The SENS Foundation (to which I donate $10 a month) - http://www.sens.org/

The Stanford Center on Longevity - http://longevity.stanford.edu/

The USC Longevity Institute - http://longevityinstitute.usc.edu/

The Methuselah Foundation - https://www.mfoundation.org/

Transhumanism & Immortality, by Isaac Arthur - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok8N2PkqCDs

Transhumanism & the 3 Supers, by David Pearce & Adam Ford - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKzzahPrss

Immortality is Within Our Reach, by Aubrey de Grey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_fP3fCkNo

Evolutionary Theories of Aging & Longevity (Gavrilov & Gavrilova, 2002) - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2002/704240/abs/