Hello friends,
Today we are lucky to introduce you to an intriguing figure such as Aubrey de Grey, the British researcher who claims to have drawn a roadmap to defeat biological aging. He provocatively proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born.
Aubrey de Grey is the man who is convinced that only the lack of proper funding separates us from the final victory over the aging.
He is the Co-founder and Director of Science of SENS Research Foundation, the organization that develops methods to combat aging. In addition, de Grey is the author of «Ending Aging», the book that discusses the possibility of a complete medical victory over the aging in the next few decades.
With the support of the V International Film Festival of Science and Technology (Moscow 21-29 October 2015)
Questions:
- You say that medicine is able to completely defeat aging within next 20-30 years. Where does your
confidence come from? Does achieving immortality mean overcoming physical death?
- Tell us more about those mechanisms that are able to prevent aging?
- What are you working on today specifically? What are your goals and what are visible due dates to achieve any results?
- When there be tests on humans?
- Has the perception of aging changed? Is it any easier to raise funds?
- The most frequent objection to immortality - is that humanity is not ready for indefinitely long life. "People dont know what to do on Friday evening. And you offer them immortality." How do you feel about that?
- And why do you personally need a long life? What's the purpose?
- What are the most common complaints and objections to immortality topic in your own experience?
- What's your take on the prospects of technological immortality? Like... using uploading or full body prosthesis?