LIVING FOREVER
So, for real, how do we live forever?
Starting now, how do we actually live as long as possible before biological death...
Then, over time, how do continue to prolong life and postpone death?
Well... good questions...
Unfortunately, the reality is that if your time is up, your time is up... nothing can be done
in the immediate future, say today or tomorrow, literally, to stop you from dying the next day.
There is always the chance you will be stupid and have a life-threatening accident or for some reason
you (like me) have an incurable disease...
Luckily, with treatment, my disease is not life-threatening at this point in time...
Just mind-altering...
...
Anyways...
Say you are currently living, at any age...
Say you haven't yet been born...
Say you are currently nearing the end of your normal life...
Well, it is my belief that anyone currently alive in 2006 has the opportunity through cutting-edge
medicine and healthy living to live an extra 10 years of life.
Now, extrapolate this a little...
If you happen to live another 10 years, something which is eminently forseeable,
and assuming that current research approaches pan out, then you should be able to live
for an extra 10 years after that.
For example, at the moment, it is almost possible to "print" 3d biologically functional organs
for human transplant, based on an individuals unique dna fingerprint, which makes tissue rejection
a non-starter, and which promises to revolutionise invasive surgery in the coming 10-20 years.
For example, at the moment they can create heart muscle fibres which function correctly, and they
can also create a 3d structure of a working heart.
In a very few years, we will be able to make an entire working artificially grown organic heart,
fully functioning and in perfect health for transplant into people who need a new heart.
The same goes for all other bodily organs.
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Now, add to this the currently primitive research advances in stem-cell technology, and old-fashioned
phrase soon to be outdated by biogerentological research and bioprogramming / genecoding research...
Already, it is possible to extract precursor stem cells from the human body, modify them, massively manufacture
them, and then re-inject the resulting genomes back into the human body using minimally invasive medical techniques.
The only problem is that genetics is hindered by one major problem, being that is has proved almost impossible
to modify the stem cells correctly, all because people do not understand the underlying genetic coding sequences
that make up human dna.
People, researchers, are currently using a "hit and miss" broad-spectrum approach to determine the functioning
of individual genes, but they have not yet figured out that there is much more to dna than just whether or not
a gene exists to produce a particular protein... and then there is much more to the dna sequence than just what
these proteins actually do inside a human being...
Sure, while it is invaluable and inevitable that we must study the function of every protein sequence in the
human body, it is also very important that we try to understand the "big picture" of the human genome.
To this end, my theories of the "big picture" functionality of the human genome should help all of humanity
continue to extend their lives by 10 years at a time, until they are 150 years old and patched up, and by
then our knowledge of the human genome will allow us to manipulate ourselves at will...
...to the point whereby we can grow wings if we like...