• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    the issue is that “immortality” is impossible and not the same as life extension. Immortality would only work as a magic thing. Or maybe brain upload thing.

    Otherwise the best is just medical life extension. Which is a very different topic.

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      6 days ago

      This feels more like a nitpicking semantic argument than anything to me. You’re just using a different definition of immortality. I just mean being able to live effectively forever without dieing of being old, which is absolutely possible.

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        honestly, this is 100% nitpicking semantics.

        As a biologist, that biological immortality is also nearly impossible so far. like warp drive. My PhD thesis was on aging and senescence.