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Articles on Immortality
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AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship with mortality.
Vladimir Putin claims organ transplants could make us live to 150. But even healthy organs fail with time – ageing can’t be fixed with spare parts.
From temples and ashes to cars and AI, humans are populating space with beloved items.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were recently caught discussing whether organ transplants could help a person live forever. The idea has scientific and ethical flaws.
Among the big names investing big bucks to prolong their lives are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison.
Donald Trump’s own fears of physical and social vulnerability have helped compel his dangerous projections of power.
One of the gifts that Prime Minister Modi gave to President Biden symbolizes the recipient’s having seen 1,000 full moons, implying a long and auspicious life.
A new book, Unscripted, tells the incredible story of Sumner Redstone, the other model for Succession’s Logan Roy – and the epic succession journey of his daughter, Shari, now chair of ViacomCBS.
The immortal jellyfish ‘Turritopsis dohrnii’ is capable of escaping death. The molecular keys involved in its longevity have been revealed by researchers at the University of Oviedo.
Marilyn Monroe endures as an icon thanks to a perfect storm of biography and cultural context.
A professor of religion and science explains different views on immortality, from the religious perspective of President Jimmy Carter to the scientific, secular take of Carl Sagan.
Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. That record will be broken this century, statistical models suggest.
As modern medicine improves, so too does our ability to stave off disease. But can we overcome the most inescapable of afflictions - old age? Researchers around the world are trying to find out.
The quest for immortality is as old as humanity itself, but the prospect of being able to copy the neural networks of a person’s brain shifts the pursuit of perpetual life into the digital world.
Long read: How nature is fighting our attempts to use biohacking to live forever.
The enthusiasm for business creation is not without negative consequences, especially for the many who fail. However, the “all entrepreneurs” discourse remains predominant.
Several companies are trying to develop life extension methods that could enable some people to live far longer. There are some ethical dilemmas.
Cryonics is no longer synonymous with science fiction. What are we technically capable of doing and what do we have the right to do?
How far would you go to better your life, to live longer, to beat death? And how much can technology help us in that quest?
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Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton
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Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
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Professor of Molecular Medical Science, University of Sydney
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Associate Teaching Professor Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
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Michel Villette is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professeur de Sociologie, Chercheur au Centre Maurice Halbwachs ENS/EHESS/CNRS , professeur de sociologie, AgroParisTech – Université Paris-Saclay
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VC Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Professeur de droit privé et de sciences criminelles, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
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PhD Candidate in Statistics, University of Washington
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Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
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Researcher in Virtual Reality, Auckland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Bath
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, UNSW
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Reader in the Department of Music, University of Liverpool
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Adjunct Professor of Journalism, La Trobe University
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Professor Emeritus and Lecturer in Religion and Science, Florida International University