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How Science Can Make Us Immortal

12-Feb-2016

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Many respectable scientists now believe that humans can overcome death.

We will simultaneously defeat many other diseases.

Alternative ways to achieve immortality:

1. conquering our biological limitations

2. exponential growth of computing power will make it possible to upload one’s consciousness into a virtual reality.

3. Upload one’s brain to a genetically engineered or robotic body.

Our descendants will resemble us about as much as we do the amino acids from which we sprang.

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Aubrey de Grey

President and Chief Science Officer at Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation

Hans Moravec

Adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

Nick Bostrom

Founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, Professor and Author

Ray Kurzweil

Author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist

Rodney Brooks

Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT.

Vernor Vinge

Retired professor, computer scientist, and science fiction author

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