/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15305702
Are you sure the question is not how to make all cells keep renewing themselves and reverse corruption without causing cancer?

>>15305702
cell division

>>15305702
Depends on which level of causation you're asking about. How proximate or ultimate? Ultimately, entropy.

>>15305702
Entropy.

>>15305723
I feel like this is a slippery slope, could humans even retain sanity after being alive for more than 100 years?

>>15305702
Oxygen.
Vaccum seal yourself in Nitrogen and you will be preserved.

>>15305702
Moving slower than c

>>15305834
The only correct answer

>>15305702
Your mom

>>15305702
listen to a woman nag

>>15305733
https://youtu.be/1WNQDqXZOWg

>>15305834
How does that lead to aging though?

>>15305702
Epigenetically induced tissue dysfunction. Simply put, useful genes are turned off by epigenetic changes and the accumulation of these eventually leads to tissue failure -> organ failure -> death

>>15305702
Fundamentally I believe it's cellular senescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_senescence
Basically an accumulation of cell damage and the inability of the immune system to deal with it

>>15305733
I could easily fill my life up with thousands of years of things to do. When you have a lot of goals you want to achieve then the major problem in life is that there's not enough time to achieve them all. I have lots of ideas for startup businesses and I'd be lucky if I even get to do two of three of them. Then there's goals that are essentially endless like just the goal to help further humanity etc

>>15305702
God's punishment on mankind for Adam eating that Apple in the Garden when he was told not to and bringing sin into Creation.

>>15305733
My family is unusually large, so I know many people in their 80s and 90s.
They all tell me the same thing, that the longer you live the shorter years become.
Basically they think a decade isn't that long, it's like yesterday for them.
So living a thousand years shouldn't pose any problem at all if you're not aging.

>>15307109
That's because old people do nothing all year and it seems to them their days are shorter. Younger people have many activities over a year and it seems to them they had many more experiences. It's perception bias

>>15306510
>>15305724
Isn't it possible to prevent cell division with meds? What would the consequences be if so?

>>15305733
2.4 petabytes of data per brain, not counting compression methods to save space. You have about 150 years audio/visual and sensory data. Emotion is how you interperate and express the data. Like a filter.

>>15305733
I fail to see why they would just inherently go insane after 100 years. Dick Van Dyke is almost 100 and he seems at least lucid when talking.

>>15307117
Not him, but I'm not sure if I agree. It makes far more sense to imagine that old people find inanity to be boring. In that they've seen so many leaves fall off a tree that they don't think the new leaf is more unique than the old leaf.

>>15305702
sin

>>15305702
spilling your essence you sick degenerate

>>15306965
>>15309089
not funny

>>15305702
Smoking and the long exposure to the sun.
Oh, and this lel >>15305834

they differentiate into death by design for evolutionary purposes

>>15307109
They forget more.

>>15305702
Malnutrition. Lead, mercury and cadmium are essentoal nutrients. Other unknown or neglected nutrients (like copper) may also contribute.

Better question: Will we ever see successful age halting/reversal methods in our lifetime?

>>15307988
The idea is to reactivate telomerase which will indefinitely repair the telomeres of the stem cells, thereby allowing the stem cells to live forever. The problem is that this can lead to cancer because the stem cells then might multiply out of control.

Time, you dumbfucks

>>15305702
Unravelling energies within molecules and to a much much lesser extent, atoms.

>>15305702
not enough vitamin C