01 JUN 2013 by mxplx
"Healthy Aging" is not enough
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
http://www.longecity.org/forum/page/index.html/_/articles/action/brokenportal2010Folksonomies: science immortality
Folksonomies: science immortality
Achieving indefinite life extension is the most important, urgent, and time-sensitive cause ever undertaken in the history of humanity,Regardless of whether we ultimately find that we can achieve indefinite life extension or not, we need to go all the way and see. Our lives- this amazing shot at this incredible mysterious existence- depend on it. We can not afford to sell ourselves short on this.
sentiments expressed by proponents of the compression of morbidity, though very noble and well meaning, are misleading and harmful to this cause.
29 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
Belief VS Evidence
Our own view of what is and is not
possible in reality affects how we
perceive identical evidence. But that view
shifts with time, and thus, evidence that
might at one point seem meaningless can
come to hold a great deal of meaning.
Think of how many ideas seemed
outlandish when first put forward, seemed
so impossible that they couldn’t be true:
the earth being round; the earth going
around the sun; the universe being made
up almost entirely of something that we
can’t see, dark matter and... 1 
notes
notesMany great minds have been taken in by supernatural ideas.
