Artificial Life Extension – Is Immortality Possible?
(12 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
A film by the Immortality Institute that explores various aspects of artificial life extension including cryonics, caloric restriction, transhumanism, and other scientific pursuits of extreme life extension. With the scientific progress we see now the question raises: “Is immortality possible?”
Will there be a time where everybody with enough assest available will be able to live forever? Can we really become immortal one day and conquer death?
Exploring Life Extension
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Andrew
The documentary isn’t so much about the different techniques of immortality, more so about the morality behind it. The video provided no specific info, only speculations. Plus even though it appears to be from 2001 or 2002, it’s incredibly outdated.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:02 pmkisinz
What about land the food…No one dies I guess no more babies then …Y run out of space . My be after we make to the stars . But then again the only people that will live for ever will be super rich……. Going back the stars……. So we kill this planet moving to two or more kill them and so on sounds like a virus and to y that think y can evolve to not destroying planets look around y …….. We are too stupid ……Most people should be place in front of TV feed sports and bull and made in to batteries……. feed them chips and burgers ……….when they get old grind them up on feed them to next batch stupbeings …..
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 amMichael Andrew Thompson
General Viewer- Not much here in details. It is mostly an overview of the concept of longevity.
Andrew – Over all I agree with what you said.
Kisinz – Don’t take offense but your argument is based on ignorance. The evidence shows that man does not act like a virus… most of the time. If your view was correct then the more advanced the society the WORSE its environment but evidence does not bare this out. Would you rather live in Paris or Shanghai? 1800 London (Where the smell from the Themes was so bad they had to close down parliament.) or modern day London? How about 1815 Pittsburgh (Where the smoke from coal furnaces were so bad some days you couldn’t see the city from a hill just outside of town.) vs the city today? The reality of humans is that we do tend to solve problems as long as we get correct feed back from our environment. In virtually every case where problems get to the point of disaster it is because those feed backs that were necessary for change were either not present of were blocked. Blockages are usually caused by some form of man made institution like Government or organized Mythology Worship (i.e. Christianity, Islam, etc.).
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 pmTed Seay
Michael, I agree completely with your statement that we can solve these problems. The idea that we will run out of resources is a knee – jerk reaction. When you first ponder the issue of overpopulation, that is the first conclusion that you come to. After thinking for a while, you can discover that multi-level farming, better harvesting techniques, hydroponics and nutrient supplements can solve most of the issues we will face. The CO2 removal from our atmosphere is going to be the biggest challenge of our lifetimes.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:45 pmdanny
anybody notice Dr. Ben Goertzel is John Frusciante ?
March 4th, 2010 at 11:55 pm