I echo that!

Good luck, if you're still 'trying'.

***** It's more wicked to be ignorant than educated.

+Magmafox Wood hehe. well curiosity is called "Neugierde" in German, which literally translates into "new-greed" the greed of new(things). but dont worry, its not like he is taking anything away. its like reading an exciting book, you can pass it to someone else, and he can enjoy it too.

Are you me?

Dude u still there, right? It's only been 5years since your comment

Hello? A comment like that sounds like depression.

Hey, just checking in. You ok?

My only hope is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

​@@Ab-abovetheFirmament My only hope is Robinhood.

I'm going to take a screenshot of this just in case so I can show off to all the people at the elderly care center

+waterrrr We've gotten so good at accepting death and disease we've come to see them as fundamental to the meaning and pleasure of life...

***** I'll believe you when rejuvination is right in front of your 90 year old face and you'll say "nah, I want to keep my fundament to the meaning and pleasure of life".

waterrrr I should have clarified that I wasn't referring to myself, but humanity in general.

Well said my friend ;) well said.

Ok now his ideas are mainstream. Great Job Aubrey!!

Life doesn't really end.. Only your body ends.

@@bloodymirpoutin3825, if you're a lunatic and believe in the afterlife.

Death doesnt make any sense

@@bloodymirpoutin3825 stop body forever.

@@bloodymirpoutin3825 I don’t want my body to end in real life.

Maybe we will be able to overcome aging before the end of the century ...

Immortality is impossible

@@tfootball8704 yup

​@@Emp158 living for longer isn't

@@Emp158 what if you could play football forever?

For those who are interested in helping aubrey de grey, you can donate to www.sens.org/ They've made scientific progress and still could use more donations =)

Usad Rebs I don't think you understand me or the transhumanist movement. If you look at people who consider themselves transhumanists, they are generally liberal left, or libertarian right. Generally Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul type supporters. We generally oppose over reach of government and of course would condemn any form of genocide or forcible moving of individuals. You seem to be saying that we will treat you just as the Europeans will treat the native Americans. This is not the case. We want everyone to be free, in fact this is the one basis of the transhumanist movement: to be freer from things like pathology from aging. Empathy will never be obsolete, it encourages understanding to how others feel and invites us to be friendly individuals. If I had the ability to reprogram myself, infact I would reprogram out anger and hatred and even increase my capacity for empathy. Another thing: Where are you getting this idea that we will not respect your choice? Hornestly we really don't care whether or not you choose to upgrade your body or not nor will we support committing war crimes or CAH such as forcible moving of people in the way you describe.

Valentinia Kladimironova Just to say, if white people become immortal, your end is coming even quicker than you can imagine. You are evil and corrupt, you seek immortality yet you cannot forgive anyone? Even this Usad Rebs realize that your people cannot be content with just immortality, you will always want money, power, greed, hatred.

Kevic Vaughn What the fuck are you talking about? When did I say I don't forgive people? You know NOTHING about me. Read my bloody comment. NOTHING implies corruption. I believe everyone should have right to access radical life extension and freedom from suffering. You are a Racist hateful bigot. Also I'm Chinese, not white.

First of all, transhumanists are not part of the "elite". None of us are congressmen or lobbyists. I can tell you as someone who regularly talks to individuals who identify as "transhumanists", that they are not narcissistic. The likes of David Pierce, Aubrey De Grey, and many friends do really want to eradicate suffering to the world. They really are interested in saving many lives, and not just their own. As Aubrey stated, aging causes a lot of suffering and kills 100,000 lives every single day. Many of us, such as Machine Intelligence Research Institute are also quite concerned with potential abuse of advanced AI and are researching safeguards for such tech. Our goals are not purely about saving the self, it's about saving as many individuals as possible from involuntary death, and reducing involuntary suffering.

Tony Reno A lot of people are going to look back decades from now and be very thankful to Aubrey de White. :P

You think aging is the number 1 problem facing humanity? That Population won't be a problem? Ha! How naive, how childish. You claim to occupy the intellectual high ground without fully grasping the bigger picture. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Megalodon I have seen how it is sold to everyone that population is a "Problem" on late night ads for aid to developing countries. They always show pictures of war torn areas with backward governments and crazy dictators and say, "See, Population is a time bomb." This, of course, is not some new theory. It goes back to Thomas Malthus the late 18th century when the world population was 1 billion and the prediction was that it couldn't sustain 1.5 billion. What all of the "Population, oh my!" people keep failing to understand is that people are not just born with mouths to feed. They are also born with hands to work and minds to invent. Let's suppose "Population" were the issue everyone says it is. Then what do you think would be a more expensive place to buy land, Tombstone Arizona, or New York, New York? "Population" is not an issue. But lets say that it was an issue. Then let's do a study and find out what are the factors that have the biggest mathematical impact on population? Is it A. Number of children per couple? B. How soon child bearing begins? C. Age at death? It turns out that this is the mathematical order of importance. A is far more important than B. B is far more important than C. The effect of A is a high geometric effect. The effect of B is a low geometric effect. The effect of C is a low linear effect. But put the math books aside and actually do the research. Go around the world and find where the population growth is that greatest. You will find that you can list the roughly 200 countries of the world. And you can compare their population growth rates (through birth, not immigration) against their life expectancy. From what you are saying, the longest lived populations should be the fastest growing. In fact it is the exact opposite. It is the shortest lived populations that are the fastest growing, and many western countries with very long life spans have populations that are stable or nearly shrinking, but for the immigration coming from the rapid growth in parts of the world with the lowest longevity. I understand that intuition is misleading here. People think the big deal is insuring the death rate continues, but the age of death is way way down the list, and is, surprisingly, a counter-indicator of population growth rate. How can this be? It's simple. The long people live, the more they delay having their first children. In short-lived countries women are having children in their teens, and having 4 or more children. In long lived countries women are waiting till their mid twenties and having, on average, just over 2 children, and that average is dropping over time (as more women choose to now have children, or to just have 1). What causes trouble in the world is not the number of people, but how those people live. If they live intelligently, the carrying capacity of the world is far higher than it is now. And in the process, the total wealth of the world enables technologies that are not now possible, including oceanic habitats, underground building, and even space elevator technology to vastly reduce the cost of building in space using materials mined in space. But even without those advances, there is no imminent population crunch from people not dying. The added health and working lives of people would create such a boom in the ability to do massive development projects that earth could easily house 10 times it's current population. And as the birth rate drops below 2, the growth curve reaches a curve that doesn't leap up boundlessly, but reaches a maximum point. "Population?" Behind that fear is the concept that there will be no new farmers, or no new technologies. But our technology is at the infancy. We are just barely starting to learn how chemistry and biochemistry works. We cannot yet make meat from sunlight and air, but we should be able to, because that is exactly what plants and animals, working together do. The plants use sunlight to turn Carbon Dioxide, water and a handful of trace minerals into food. The animals turn that food into meat. People think we are advanced now, but within 3 decades we'll have mastered all of that. People are already 3D printing meat now that was not grown on an animal. If you look at history, we have the lowest percentage of starving people ever in history. And if you ignored war torn areas that percentage would be vanishingly small. And this is despite the fact that we have 7 times what the earth had the first time we were worried about population killing us. Everyone who looks at population with fear doesn't understand how far we are from the limits of technology, and doesn't appreciate how having more people helps technology advance faster. You'd think after over 200 years of seeing this work people would figure it out by now, but they don't. They, like you, are too naive to do the research.

Megalodon Whats worse, near 200,000 people dying every day? Or over population. Id probably pick over population. Which is also preventable if we do it right. Stopping aging, and stopping over population will be a win win.

ImCrazy intertestingly, you have just described the bibles over all plan for the future... interesting

I don't get the cynics. Wouldn't life be amazing if we didn't have fear of being old and crippled, knowing that there's plenty of time to do all the things we ever wanted to do.

Waffle Waffles the fact of the matter is most people are wasting their lives away anyway... you'd just have more time to waste that's all...do the things you want to do , even if you lived 1000 years you'd still never do EVERYTHING....

Aubrey is far more laid back now, because the industry has exploded. Investors with more cash than his entire nonprofit has are coming to him to ask where the money should go and founding companies to research that one thing. The industry founded around SENS principles has ballooned into a billion-dollar one now in 2019.

@@squamish4244your resources to your claims? where did you get it ? is that even legit ? just asking.

You have epic beard too

They'll always be something extra to live for, something more to explore or wait for, you'll always be left wondering what comes next and to stay around and see it... Well I know I would anyway.

Possibly but I can't imagine what it could be right now

*****​ you have a good point my friend.

***** Anime, Marvel movies, DC movies, The cosmic collisions, death of stars, exploration of deep space, space warp, star trek style travel throughout the Universe. Virtually perfect fantasy worlds with full experience as reality. It's almost endless.

***** I'm just asking for virtual reality of Final fantasy, Kingdom hearts, Monster hunter, Dark souls, Witcher. I love rpg games in general, they have so much depth and beautiful worlds. However, i'm also a scientist at heart so i'll be looking forward towards new physics, chemistry, biology manipulations. One of ths most exciting prospect for me is AI.

+Dihelson Mendonca exactly

We don't need 500 years. Time is relative. What we need is a good fair society that doesn't exploit the individual by forcing them to work their whole lives like slaves.

+Constantino Fine Art I think we need both actually.

Thinking better about this, I think you're right. 500 years would be great for curious, intelligent people. I've always wanted to study all areas of science and always thought my time is limited.

You cant have it , too bad.....

+neutrinocoffee I agree with ya.

+Gordon Skyler would rather burn in hell forever than die. If I get to live forever and not burn in hell no matter what my existence is like - I will be happy.. But then may be I just think that because I am currently mortal. Most people who are poor think they will be happy if they are millionaires. But when they become millionaires they realize it is not the case.

Happiness doesn't increase past $75,000 USD per year. True fact. So money can bring more happiness but it peaks at 75k.

Gordon Skyler Hear that? Millionaires! Please give me all your money that exceed your $75,000 USD a year happiness cap! Thank you.

I already wasn't planning on having children anyway. Overrated stuff. I prefer cats. It's a good question though, because that might actually become the trade when this anti-aging tech comes out.

waterrrr There is a much simpler solution - freeze the people who want children until there is a need for new people. Some kind of cryogenic sleep. If we have immortality tech, then surely we have suspended animation tech.

That's the point indeed! The goal.

WE DON T HAVE ANYTHING

What's that medicines that reverse aging?

That other guy is brown though. He keeps trying to live next to me! THE GAYS!

We need to fund many thing because we dont know what might come out of different science areas. All science areas are related and are accelerating thanks to each other. For example, internet helped us learn and share new things much faster than before which helps science etc

'MURICA and its nationalism. At least a number of people here don't think like that

loool close enough

I'll be 62, October 2023. I went back to school in 2010 to do graduate work in Gerontology. I WISH I could have seen Dr. Aubrey de Grey speak, but never have. I think this guy is brilliant. I was hired (at USC) to work on the tail end of a 40+ year longitudinal study on Alzheimer's (a tragic cognitive disease). I was responsible for cognitive testing (and some gofer work being new in the field at 49 - lol). This guy is my hero as I've always had a fascination for longevity and immortality. I wrote a successful memoir in 2022 called "Alive After Dying" (not about life after death) and will be releasing book 1 of a sci-fi trilogy incorporating some of Dr. de Grey's theories called "Her Immortal Menagerie" literally this weekend. I would never have thought about releasing it if it hadn't been for this amazing man. He's younger than I am. He just turned 60 on April 20th. He was born in 1963. He delights in looking old. lol

Mind blown

He reminds me of Rasputin

I was focusing so much on what he was saying that after about 30 seconds I didn't notice the beard anymore

My favourite 2 🐱🐱 are already dead 😭

GSPxRUSH Then all you'd have to do when they perfect the process is decide to stop taking the treatments after a number of years and die naturally.

Just found this old comment, i was harsh, shame on me.

Immortal

in New Zealand :)

on the Mars drinking beer with Elon.

That could legitimately be the “where do you see yourself in 30years?” question kids get in 2050

Playing football in another galaxy.

read my current post.

Most likely, Bio engineering or Biotechnology i think.

Jonathan Smith the MitoSENS project is being crowdfunded at lifespan(dot)io

Portable PlatypusDotCom Thanks, you just blessed me with the gift of immortality.. that's kinda cool

Jonathan Smith Hi Jonathan, maybe this is for you: Live longer, healthier, more stamina even at old ripe age, healthy skin, more wealth...and more importantly, more time for ourselves, our beloved ones and last but not least...more time to care for other people, helping people's lives.....yess, I guess most of you will agree with me. But the big question is HOW are we going to do that? It seems only a dream that can be reached by wealthy people. It is true-yesterday! However with fast growing technology, internet and good people, this is possible and even for average people like myself .... This resveratrol is maybe one of the answers available on earth right now among other things. It helps many people with diabetic problem, some cancer diseases, neural problems, fertility, et cetera. How is this possible? The answer perhaps lays that this resveratrol is solving the root cause of the problem. It cures and fixes or repairs on cell level. CMIIW. It happens to my mother's friend anyway. How am I get to this resveratrol thing? This is possible by one product that is patented called RESERVE by Jeunesse company. The product is kind of edible gel with patented special packaging and also is Halal. You can see the product in uncle google or here www.gandaria.jeunesseglobal.com Hope by sharing this and my franchise online store, I could help many people changing their lives for the better , live healthier or even better make them a millionaire (a part from resveratrol, Jeunesse is having an e-commerce business platform with global dropshipping and network marketing pattern that is possible to make the business grow fast). It is my dream to make 1000 millionaire in 2020 and see people lives in healthier, wealthier, happier, respect and loving and peaceful world.

*****​ evidently you haven't watched Sword Art Online

***** My point still stands...

Can you link me a link to the website please

Actually studies show that SENS is not having any actual progress in clinical or theoretical fields, they are basically stuck (look it on Wikipedia). Don't donate on things that are not showing promising result just because they promise stuff that are kinda appealing (like...Eternal Life today and easy?)

wat? source? And he didn't say "today" he said in the next few decades. Of course it will take a while to get results and a working therapy, especially if they DON'T get enough support. Also he said (in another talk or interview) that these therapies, in the start, will not give you an indefinite lifespan, but rather an extension of 20 years, or 50 years (I don't exactly remember numbers he said), which will give us more time to wait for improvements with further extensions of the lifespan and so on, until we have the real thing. This is why Aubrey de Grey believes that the first person to live to being a thousand years old is already alive today.

Mortebianca Wikipedia is nice.. but it's know where near being a definitive source because its being written by people who are biased in todays paradigms. and not the next 20yrs of potential breakthrus. the lot of them follow the way things are "right now". and in the mental capacity of "oh its at 1 percent so it'll take forever." I don't think its a viable source of citing how really close these technologies are since it wont be able to measure the wave for these technologies.

Quantum Sky "Wikipedia is biased when it criticizes my favourite ideology" The Internet, 2017.

You may have been.

@JESUS CHRIST for a guy named jesus christ you're awfully pessimistic

may be this era will become era of immortality we will soon discover therapy to stop ageing .I am also working on same .

no need to wish, you have, give it a few decades

@@rohitraysho6317 bro what did you pursue?

Waffle Waffles Yeah, many people will say that they don't care about dying but when they get older, I bet a lot of them will quickly change their mind.

Ryan Carter True, I guess it depends how tired of life they are, personality and life experience must be a factor

So much knowledge and experience is lost after we've spent a lifetime of learning, if the world had fewer people but those fewer people lived 2 or 3 times longer then the world would be a far more knowledgeable and wise place. Currently by the time you are mature in understanding of people and the world, and you can really start to appreciate life, your body starts letting you down.

Blazrakin Vlazrakin You can still raise awareness and convince others to donate.

Same here

Omg, best joke ever!

zombie drone

I'm a Christian and I want to be immortal on earth. Go to Heaven after meeting God He can drive me to Heaven

@@rebeccadaniel2560, a Christian that acknowledges that living indefinitely is not a bad thing.

@@rebeccadaniel2560 Wait, hold up. I know there are cool things on Earth, but if you really do spend forever on it, there are an *unfathomable* number of star systems to miss out on. It only takes a few minutes of flying around in SpaceEngine to come to terms with the scale. Also, our sun isn't one of the more stable or long lived stars, it might need to be stripped down to a red dwarf and planets moved nearer or some other trick down the road, and stellar remnants or sub-stars such as brown dwarfs could be superior hosts to main sequence stars. They will most likely be around after all the main sequence stars burn up.

They all think they're gonna go to heaven, that's why. I, for one, want to be among the first generation to get this treatment. Plenty of things to do and lots of places to visit.

MrRobertGulabo count me in, i think its not enough to live for 60-70 years

@@MrEmpireBuilder0000 actually you WILL get the opportunity, but you will have to sell your soul to the beast.. Jesus offers you immortality for free, the beast wants your soul.. choose wisely

So true and SAD.....

@@incorectulpolitic prove it. I think I'd rather trust science, not that I want to live forever if you are never freed from your body you can't become enlightened

Looks familiar!

Anybody who can get chemo, insulin, or antibiotics, obviously.

+dmana3172 He is actually already 200! :)

@@sebastianpye9328 lol. He actually just turned 60 in 2023. He delights in looking old on purpose.

OceanWho Sure, i'm joined, my name is Son!c :)

The economic necessity will force the solution to show up. But if Ray Kurzweil is right, all we would need at the end of this decaded is energy, nothing else. The singularity is near!!

Escaping the planet wouldn't be needed. The same technology needed to do this 'age maintenance' would also help us to minimise the ill effects of overpopulation.

Thank god for SpaceX.

We don't really have a choice. We KNOW there is a huge demographic catastrophe presented by the aging of the Baby Boomers, and the rest is less well known and lies farther in the future, even if only a few decades.

Nikolaos Skordilis I know this was two months ago, but they said we would all die of starvation if our population kept expanding. We kept expanding, and we're doing just fine (relatively speaking). I'm not trying to be a dick, but humans have shown time and time again that we can overcome any problem when we get a swift kick in the ass to get us working on it.

***** You are still too young to understand that concept, eventually you will be able to see it. God bless you.

A spirit is a non matter, no form, but pure energy, emaneted from the Divine, out of love, created simple and ignorant, with endless oportunity to exist for ever, it will never die, it has no sex, it only can evolve, learn and grow, when it is incarnated in a physical organic body, if it chooses not to incarnate, it will not learn and become what it is meant to be; a divine being like its creator. As evolution takes its course in the universe, the same way is our spirit. It is it that actually gives the body its life with function and not simple electricity runing in our brains. Remember, the Creator of this whole universe, also created Spiritual, Moral, Physical and Moral Laws; if we break one of them, we will have to return (reincarnation) to earth to expiate our errs. The Creator is all LOVE. If you wish to learn more, get the Spirits Book by Allan Kardec

My Spirit was created from a Particle of the Divine's own Spirit, as anyone else's were; the ones you are referring to are detectable energies from a 3 or more dimensional universe or universes. Some argue that we are billions of years old, and that we have lived in other solar systems or galaxies before, and that the Spirituality or Guide Spirits/Entities or God, whatever way one wants to call IT?? That this whole thing was engineered by a superior Force. Since at the present moment we can not understand and grasp it in its entire infinity. It was given to us another opportunity of a life time, to make it right, to grow and evolve as Spiritual Beings in the Agape Love, as we are meant to be; anything else out of Love brings suffering. I am not sure if I answered your question.

***** I am not an expert on this subject, in fact I am very new on this. As I mentioned before about Allan kardec books (19th C French Scientist and French language pedagogical expert, lived in Paris), if you look him up you will come across several books written by him (some are fully translated from the original French language to Portuguese/English/Spanish/German and other languages), he is considered the Spiritualist Teaching Codifier. Also, several books have been psycho-graphically-written by mediums all over the world, specifically in Brazil. To explain exactly how sometime we have this "Knowledge", I would have to open up my life as a book on this platform, and I don't want to do that. I would like to say that I do believe in science, but I strongly believe that there are a spiritual world out there or in here right now, beyond science, eventually Quantum-physics will explain Spirituality.

I am talking about medium-ship with all their abilities. Scientists are not looking into that. They would have to transcend science. I am talking about spiritual things that can only be understood spiritually. You are trying to rationalize what is spiritual with science. That is why I suggested you to read about it in those books. No one can define this subject in few words in a blog like this one. To have knowledge is to read and to be able to read things between the lines by opening our minds to what Spirituality is trying to show us. I've had experiences with what is Spiritual for many years, in fact, I was born in a environment where mostly people believe in it. As i said, I am not an expert, I am a student, but I can not deny the Spiritual Realm, at this point in my life it is impossible.

But being alive is what gives us the fear of death. The unknown factor of what comes next. And if this is our only chance to ever experience life, why waste it? And why not make it longer to get the most out of it? When I say this,, I mean it for every person. Every person is important. There will only be one me and there will never be another one. Life is important and no one is to say that we don't deserve to live longer than other animals. It's just that we are intelligent enough to value life and think abstract. A cat will never truly understand its own life and even if there was something after death, wouldn't even notice.

+X- Wolf Thanks for your reply here. In respect to your first point: it's irrational to fear not being alive when you are alive, since you cannot fear death when you are not living. Consciousness equates to life, not death. You never could fear death when you had not yet been born because there was no you, no consciousness; the same non-fear will occur after you die, where there will be no consciousness and hence no fear. Your second point: my response is that we're wasting our time worrying about death and the fear of it when it's inevitable - and this can be blended in with my first response above. Your third point: yes, every person is important, to themselves and to those who value them - but not to the material world. Your life is no more important to the material world than is a single cell microbe, or an arctic penguin. After all, all species, not only each individual or each "important" person, will eventually become extinct. You cannot fight nature. The last point of yours: we are indeed intelligent enough to value life, yes, but this can be instinctual, too - like the cockroach that tries to hide on your kitchen bench top when it's sighted. As for the cat, well, if you own one, please keep in mind that you don't actually own it. The cat owns you. ; - ) Finally, I do agree that we can become mindful of taking better care of ourselves through education. Having said that, most people struggle with work and very low real wages that makes them time poor. Finding time to devote oneself to home cooked meals and exercise, then, becomes difficult. de Grey would not have to concern himself with these problems as he's wealthy, which would give him a different perception of reality. Certainly, if de Grey shows, however, that he can cater for everyone, that we can have healthy ageing for everybody, without exception, then I'd be sold. But, in reality, most people on this planet go to bed hungry every night, and that in itself is evermore the immediate problem.

+Meshwork123 In the end though, it's not about wether we deserve it or not. There is no one to set those boundaries or say wrong from right. But it is something that humans want and are going to go nonstop at the idea. That's just human nature. Any living being with abstract thought and high intelligence would think the same. Because we value this one chance way to much to waste it and not give it our all to keep living, so that when the time comes that something amazing happens, we don't miss it.

+Meshwork123 What if this could give every person in the world a chance? No more deaths from diseases, no more waste. If you have watched Doctor Who Rings of Akhatan, you would understand why it is such a waste to create life and not enjoy the most of it, and that this could prevent early deaths.

+X- Wolf You seem to misunderstand many of my points as I've detailed above. I cannot be anymore explicit. We humans are nothing special, and all of us, even inanimate objects, are bound by the laws of nature in a material world. What you or de Grey wants carries no weight. Our species will cease to exist, as we will, as individuals. Evolution relies on the nitrogen cycle. Evolution is why you and I are here. Evolution dictates your destiny. Just be thankful that our species has not completed its evolution (unlike the shark and crocodile which don't for example get cancer); we haven't been here long, so there's plenty of evolutionary potential left - if we don't destroy ourselves first. But to think that you or I, or de Grey for that matter, can experience longevity well beyond a reasonable expectation is nothing short of nonsense. Yes, we can certainly postpone death with clean eating and a healthy BMI, but don't expect miracles. Just enjoy the time you have and help others.