"dedication is to bettering others"
Hmmm. I guess I wasn't very clear. The idea that the human species is seen as an "other" just amazes me, but I'll admit we are a crazy race! Why do you see youself as being separate from the species? To me, this is like a skin cell thinking it is somehow not a part of the body.
"Putting it more complicatedly, the reason you age is generally regarded to be because of damage your body and cells accumulate over a lifetime of living"
Am I the only one here who suspects the reason we live to 80-100 years is because that's what we've evolved to do? Isn't it possible that this time constant happens to "work" and that by altering it we just might badly screw something up?? Does a lung cell fret over the lifetime of a skin cell? Why are we so focused on extending our own lifetimes, instead of thinking about how me might better extend the lifetime of the species?
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"dedication is to bettering others" Hmmm. I guess I wasn't very clear. The idea that the human species is seen as an "other" just amazes me, but I'll admit we are a crazy race! Why do you see youself as being separate from the species? To me, this is like a skin cell thinking it is somehow not a part of the body.
"Putting it more complicatedly, the reason you age is generally regarded to be because of damage your body and cells accumulate over a lifetime of living" Am I the only one here who suspects the reason we live to 80-100 years is because that's what we've evolved to do? Isn't it possible that this time constant happens to "work" and that by altering it we just might badly screw something up?? Does a lung cell fret over the lifetime of a skin cell? Why are we so focused on extending our own lifetimes, instead of thinking about how me might better extend the lifetime of the species?