Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey is a life extensionist and cryonicist who claims that the first person to live to 1,000 is likely already alive.[1] Though not quite as optimistic as some about the nearness of extending life, de Grey claims someone born around the year 2000 has anywhere from a 50 to 80 percent of living much longer than the current lifespan, depending on how much funding SENS and related life extension programs receive in the near future.

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See the main article on this topic: Transhumanism ยง Radical life extension

PZ Myers believes immortality or even very long lifespans are impossible because the second law of thermodynamics leads to inevitable decay in any living system.[2]

gollark: It says that Rogers was the first to say "ceramic wobble".
gollark: How did this "cermanic wobble" cult spring up so fast?
gollark: It looks like some sort of abstract art piece.
gollark: Are those LED filament lights, then, or some sort of magical multicolored incandescents?
gollark: Cool idea, since you could also run networking over that and control lighting over something less unreliable than wireless whatever, though I imagine needing a network switch would increase the costs.

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References
  1. Caspar Llewellyn Smith (31 July 2010). "Aubrey de Grey: We don't have to get sick as we get older".
  2. A short argument against immortality
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