Personally I find this idea amazing. But in response to the problem of mutation I would imagine that a technology could come along soon that would allow the DNA to be changed so that self-induced mutations wouldn't appear. I would imagine that this kind of technological jump isn't a self sustaining technology. It would HAVE to have other supporting technology to make the initial idea stable. Sort of like the research in prolonging the cellular production of telomerase to literally eliminate programmed cell death, and we got the idea from CANCER no less. The number one killer could be our ticket to immortality. And, vice versa, turning off telomerase makes cancer cells mortal again, allowing tumors to die off like normal cells. Ah well, so goes life.
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Personally I find this idea amazing. But in response to the problem of mutation I would imagine that a technology could come along soon that would allow the DNA to be changed so that self-induced mutations wouldn't appear. I would imagine that this kind of technological jump isn't a self sustaining technology. It would HAVE to have other supporting technology to make the initial idea stable. Sort of like the research in prolonging the cellular production of telomerase to literally eliminate programmed cell death, and we got the idea from CANCER no less. The number one killer could be our ticket to immortality. And, vice versa, turning off telomerase makes cancer cells mortal again, allowing tumors to die off like normal cells. Ah well, so goes life.