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The Important Meme
Contributed by Reason
April 11, 2005, 7:42 pm

Fight Aging!

The most important meme that healthy life extension advocates are currently working to spread runs something like this: The current aging research establishment is far too conservative regarding the near future potential of fully funded longevity research, and their conservatism is damaging the prospects for this funding. The human body is merely a very complex machine and aging is just another medical condition. Aging can - and should - be addressed just like any other chronic, progressive, fatal medical condition. New technologies and knowledge mean that high levels of funding for directed anti-aging research will produce radical gains in healthy life span quickly enough to benefit those of us reading this today. Over the mid to long term, greater adoption of this meme and related ideas will mean greater research funding and greater pressure for progress and legitimacy in longevity research. You can see Ray Kurzweil hard at work propagating his version of this meme in recent media appearances. Scientists believe that in the future people will be living for ever - because they will find the key to eternal life. They believe death is merely an engineering problem to be solved and are developing an organisation called the Institute...

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