There are two main approaches to overcoming the biological limits of human lifespan: 1. curing aging 2. mind uploading And while in the last few years I focused on the first approach, the second one is what attracted me to the life extension community in the first place. It just seemed such an elegant solution…… Continue reading The first step toward software-based life
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Your digital afterlife
We mentally inhabit the virtual world, but we still get born, breathe and die in the real world. And unlike our ancestors, we create mountains of digital data where they would have created smaller mountains of print data. We write emails. They wrote letters. We shoot pictures. They painted or drew. We record videos. They…… Continue reading Your digital afterlife
Top 9 ways to get more nutrients from fruits and veggies
I was under the wrong impression that one apple is just like any other apple and one orange is just like any other orange. That was until I stumbled upon ‘Eating on the wild side’ – a book that opened my eyes on how plant varieties changed long before the scare of GMO. It was…… Continue reading Top 9 ways to get more nutrients from fruits and veggies
How temperature switches aging on and off in hydra animals
The short story is this: you can place two species of hydra animals in the same environment at a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. One will age (Hydra oligactis) and the other one won’t (Hydra vulgaris). Now here are the details. Hydras are primitive multicelullar animals. When well-fed, they reproduce asexually by budding. But when…… Continue reading How temperature switches aging on and off in hydra animals