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]

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gollark: I think the AMD Vega cards have been replaced by the Navi ones now, which got released on Sunday.
gollark: *Tronzoid brings up a random vaguely political topic nobody asked about, again*
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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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