It’s always 3, 7 or 12.
I can see the appeal of putting my mind in a space probe at some point.
“Aubrey maintains that while life itself is – for now – unfathomably complex, as are most disease states, virtually everything that causes us to age and die stems from seven discrete categories of damage, which steadily accrue throughout our lives. And vitally, we don’t need to fully understand this damage in order to fix it.”
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“Virtually.” Whenever I come across this phrase in anything that is, at the end of the day, a sales pitch, I think “caveat”.
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Sure. “Fix” a complex system you don’t understand by fixing various components. Might work. Might as well turn out that you “fixed” bits that didn’t need fixing, and overlooked the bits that actually were broken.
The problem here is, if you work to reduce the effects of aging without fixing our existing political economy, that is a sure-fire recipe for further immiserating loads of people. Who will have access to life-extending technology, and what makes you so sure they’ll be willing to share it? This is the premise of like one million sci-fi dystopias.
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