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Originally Posted by Sam988  Actually, we die because "Aging is a set of progressive changes in body composition, at the molecular and cellular level, which are side-effects of essential metabolic processes. Many of these changes are eventually bad for us -- they are an accumulation of damage, which becomes pathogenic above a certain threshold of abundance."
Look at our body as a complex machine, and throughout our lives, this machine slowly accumulates minor damages. After a certain time, those damages get too big and our body can't keep up anymore, and we die. But it wasn't programmed to happen, the point is that our body is just not perfect, it would need much more DNA complexity to be; therefore our mechanisms happen with minor errors that accumulate and eventually lead to our end. |
i strongly beleive that our evolution (strongly aided by our intelligence) is following a very logical course at a technological scale. as technology and our knowledge as a race grow, it is only logical for us to live for a longer period of time, and our intelligence is at a climax point in which we can break new barriers. Living for hundreds of years is just around the corner and its simply evolution.
The scary thing is the fact that with this intelligence and evolution we also have the ability to create dangers to the people and the world around us with poisons (in food), pollution, unbalance in power and then zombie-like control over the common people.
With all of our amazing advances....comes amazing dangers.
I for one want to be a part of the solution, and I'd like to be part of the solution forever.