The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

Ep 36: Aubrey de Grey & Radical Life Extension

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See Aubrey de Grey live at the first ever Christian Transhumanist Conference on August 25th, 2018—in Nashville, TN!

Aubrey de Grey pioneers anti-aging research, answers your questions about the future this is leading to, and explains why not working to defeat aging would be a sin.

Bio:

Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, the founder & Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, editor-in-chief of Rejuvenation Research, and author of the book Ending Aging.


Relevant Links:
  • Aubrey's book: Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
  • Stay-up-date on news and research, and contribute to the anti-aging effort at the SENS Research Foundation.
  • Other efforts discussed: Google's Calico Labs, Humanity Longevity Inc

    • Important thoughts:
    • Aging causes more suffering than almost anything in the world
      • 90% of the medical budget of the western world is spent on costs associated with old age
      • The cure for Heart Disease and Cancer is being held back by the reluctance to deal with aging itself
      • Aging & Medicine
        • Aging isn't “programmed in”: much of our body's machinery is dedicated to fighting aging
        • Ending aging is continuous with current medical practice
        • Ending aging will never look like a “magic pill”—it will necessarily be an ongoing cooperative process of society.
        • World impact
          • The UN predicts that human population will peak, and start to decline, sometime this century
          • Out of pure economic necessity, world governments will pay for universal anti-aging therapy
          • Repairing damage to our bodies can correlate with repairing damage to the planet
          • The clash between science and engineering: understanding a problem, vs solving a problem
          • It would be a sin not to work on ending aging

            • How might this interact with religion?
            • The biblical vision of optimal human life is living multiple centuries, and having children much later. For example, Isaiah 65 looks forward to a time of radically extended lifespans.
            • All religions insist that we are not supposed to hasten death, and command us to work against it
            • Christians should support radical life extension

              • Pull-Quotes:

              “Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.” <-- click to tweet

              “If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.” <-- click to tweet

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