Download or read book Ending Aging written by Aubrey de Grey and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUST WE AGE? A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging. Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely—technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future—is now within reach. In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.
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Download or read book Advancing Conversations written by Douglas Lain and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future oriented. De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2005 a panel of scientists and doctors from MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Microsoft, and the Venter Institute participated in a contest to judge whether de Grey's "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" were worthy of debate and verification or whether these ideas were wrong on their face. The panel found that de Grey's proposals for intervening in the aging process, while speculative, often "ran parallel to existing research" and were not "demonstrably wrong."
Download or read book The Scientific Conquest of Death written by Immortality Institute and published by Bruce Klein. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen scientists, doctors and philosophers share their perspective on what is arguably the most significant scientific development that humanity has ever faced - the eradication of aging and mortality. This anthology is both a gentle introduction to the multitude of cutting-edge scientific developments, and a thoughtful, multidisciplinary discussion of the ethics, politics and philosophy behind the scientific conquest of aging.
Download or read book De Grey written by Henry James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "De Grey" is a gothic love story that tries to defy the curse of death. This devastating story with a supernatural twist with female protagonists upon whom doom befalls when it comes to love. The story is about the fear or hope of marriage, which leads to death, a curse, or jealousy.
Download or read book The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England written by Thomas Christopher Banks and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Humanity s End written by Nicholas Agar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of technologies and therapies that will expand our capacities far beyond what is currently possible for human beings. In Humanity's End, Nicholas Agar argues against radical enhancement, describing its destructive consequences. Agar examines the proposals of four prominent radical enhancers: Ray Kurzweil, who argues that technology will enable our escape from human biology; Aubrey de Grey, who calls for anti-aging therapies that will achieve “longevity escape velocity”; Nick Bostrom, who defends the morality and rationality of enhancement; and James Hughes, who envisions a harmonious democracy of the enhanced and the unenhanced. Agar argues that the outcomes of radical enhancement could be darker than the rosy futures described by these thinkers. The most dramatic means of enhancing our cognitive powers could in fact kill us; the radical extension of our life span could eliminate experiences of great value from our lives; and a situation in which some humans are radically enhanced and others are not could lead to tyranny of posthumans over humans.
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Download or read book Baronia Anglica Concentrata Or A Concentrated Account of All the Baronies Commonly Called Baronies in Fee written by Thomas Christopher Banks and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rationality and the Genetic Challenge written by Matti Häyry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Häyry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning and stem cell research, gene therapies and enhancements. The ethical questions explored include parental responsibility, the use of people as means, the role of hope and fear in risk assessment, and the dignity and meaning of life. Taking as a starting point the arguments presented by Jonathan Glover, John Harris, Ronald M. Green, Jürgen Habermas, Michael J. Sandel, and Leon R. Kass, who defend a particular normative view as the only rational or moral answer, Matti Häyry argues that many coherent rationalities and moralities exist in the field, and that to claim otherwise is mistaken.
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Download or read book Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids with Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office A D 1284 1431 Kent to Norfolk written by Great Britain. Exchequer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports from the Lords Committees Touching the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm c c written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
