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[John Schloendorn]

Calvin Mercer, PhD. is a religious scholar who gave a brilliant talk at the Alcor conference on how to hijack conservative memes to make conservatives support life-extension research.  Also see a summary I wrote on the Alcor blog.

[Live Forever]

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Calvin Mercer, PhD. is a religious scholar who gave a brilliant talk at the Alcor conference on how to hijack conservative memes to make conservatives support life-extension research.  Also see a summary I wrote on the Alcor blog.

excellent idea! Does anyone have a link to the video of the presentation he gave, or any other ones he has given? I am interested now.

[Mind]

What really helps in contacting guests is if one of us personally knows a researcher or famous figure. If anyone knows a newsworthy person, please list them here and we can get to work on inviting them.

[Mind]

Unfortunately, I could not get a guest scheduled soon enough this week to promote the chat so this Sunday's time slot is empty. However, we do have some exciting guests coming up. Dr. Geordie Rose of D-Wave (Quantum Computing), Dr. Ronald Klatz of A4M (many thanks to Technosophy for helping with Klatz), Dr. Calvin Mercer (religious scholar and life extension supporter), Mondey - Imminst Member (Stem Cell Researcher) plus Ben Goertzl and Bruce Klein. So stay tuned.

[Live Forever]

Mind, on 18-Jan 2008, 05:12 PM, said:

Unfortunately, I could not get a guest scheduled soon enough this week to promote the chat so this Sunday's time slot is empty. However, we do have some exciting guests coming up. Dr. Gordie Rose of D-Wave (Quantum Computing), Dr. Ronald Klatz of A4M, Dr. Calvin Mercer (religious scholar and life extension supporter), Mondey - Imminst Member (Stem Cell Researcher) plus Ben Goertzl and Bruce Klein. So stay tuned.

Great work Mind!

[Lazarus Long]

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Unfortunately, I could not get a guest scheduled soon enough this week to promote the chat so this Sunday's time slot is empty. However, we do have some exciting guests coming up. Dr. Gordie Rose of D-Wave (Quantum Computing), Dr. Ronald Klatz of A4M, Dr. Calvin Mercer (religious scholar and life extension supporter), Mondey - Imminst Member (Stem Cell Researcher) plus Ben Goertzl and Bruce Klein. So stay tuned.

So how about we take this opportunity to get to know the new ED better?  

Why don't we just call for a general membership meeting and invite all interested members to come ask questions about the direction of the Institute, leadership (you, the candidates, etc), our current organizational status and finally to get to know one another better?

[eternaltraveler]

Lazarus Long, on 18-Jan 2008, 06:15 PM, said:

So let's take this opportunity to get to know the new ED better. [wink]

Why don't we just call for a general membership meeting and invite all interested members to come ask question about the direction of the Institute, our current status and to get to know one another better?

i knew we made you chair for a reason

good idea

[Lazarus Long]

We really are a team Elrond and that is why it works best.  

All the greatest works of humankind are the result of team work even when individual genius created the opportunity.

[Mind]

Sounds like a good idea, with the election in progress and all. I suggest a start time at 4:00pm Central time. I will make an announcement in a separate thread.

[Heliotrope]

George Noory
Art Bell
michio Kaku

[Matt]

Kevin Warwick
http://www.kevinwarwick.com/

[maestro949]

The pool of scientists that have been on Futures in Biotech podcasts are a good group to consider.  Here's a list that might be willing to give their opinion as to how their fields might impact longevity research:

Dr. Lee Hood
Dr. John Bergeron
Dr. Marc Vidal
Dr. Drew Endy
Dr. Vijay S. Pande
Dr. Harrison Schmitt
Dr. Richard Lifton
Dr. George Church
Dr. Ron Evans
Dr. Evangelos Michelakis
Dr. Jeffrey Gordon
Dr. Linda Griffith

[Richard Leis]

HYP86, on 11-May 2008, 07:18 PM, said:

George Noory
Art Bell

I would prefer that we not include purveyors of pseudoscience.  While that may be entertaining (NOT! ) we should stick with, at worst, guests at the fringe.  There is already a fine line between the fringe and pseudoscience; inviting obvious pseudoscience-related speakers would only serve to confuse our message and mission.

[lunarsolarpower]

What about Kelsey Moody of http://www.mfuri.org/ ?

[Richard Leis]

lunarsolarpower, on 18-May 2008, 10:18 PM, said:

What about Kelsey Moody of http://www.mfuri.org/ ?

Fantastic idea.  I second this request.  What is going on up at ASU is inspiring.

[brokenportal]

brainbox, on 5-Nov 2007, 05:49 PM, said:

I wouldn't know anyone in particular, but it would be very interesting to discus with LE opponents.

I second this, Ide like to see like, a sunday debate at 3pm cst time everyday. We could try to schedule a higher profile person as an opponent each week, but if not we could just find anybody willing to do it. We would need a panel of debate judges though. Does anybody here know the rules of judging a debate?

[lunarsolarpower]

You know, I was thinking, who is the original man of mystery in this field? Involved in many efforts and yet I couldn't tell you much about his life story?

Saul Kent.

His mom was Dora Kent for crying out loud. He is as far as I know an investor in 21st Century Medicine and possibly Suspended Animation Inc. He was a co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation and proposed the construction of that Timeship building. I think he could be an extremely interesting guest to have on if anyone can convince him to come out from behind those sunglasses. I think we could use some inspiration towards greater entrepreneurship around here and he might be just the guy to help with that.

[inawe]

Weindruch and coworkers at Madison have recently published several papers dealing with aging, calorie restriction, resveratrol, etc. In some papers they imply that SIRT1 is implicated in the beneficial effects of CR. While in another paper they state there was no SIRT1 overexpression in CR mice.
In one of their most recent papers they state: "We have shown that moderate, adult onset DR can attenuate sarcopenia in a nonhuman primate model". All of that is of great interest to many people in this forum. May be Weindruch or any of his coworkers would be willing to talk about what they are doing and answer questions.

[Matt]

http://www.arthurdevany.com/

That guy has some interesting thoughts on ways to live longer, he presented his stuff at the CR conference a few years back, he also has been part of panels with longevity/health experts on several occasions too.

Also I like the idea of trying to get Weindruch on the show too!

Edited by Matt, 02 July 2008 - 05:48 PM.

[ybit]

Theodore Berger
http://www.usc.edu/p...ty/berger_t.htm
http://www.neural-prosthesis.com/

Ed Boyden
http://edboyden.org/

Randal A. Koene
http://rak.minduploading.org/
http://minduploading...rg-members.html

Sean Hill, Felix Schürmann, or Henry Markram
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

Preston W. (Pete) Estep III
http://www.innerspac....org/people.htm
http://en.wikipedia....i/Preston_Estep

Edited by ybit, 07 July 2008 - 02:08 AM.

[ybit]

I'd like to hear an update from ocsrazor ( http://www.imminst.o...hp?showuser=257 ) to see where his research has taken him, how he sees us overcoming the technical hurdles facing his field. and how close are we to using BMIs?

[VictorBjoerk]

let's not forget the famous Stephen Coles

[ybit]

Andrew (Andy) Schwartz
http://motorlab.neur...e.php?name=andy

[Heliotrope]

i just saw a book on the new book's shelf of a college libe:  it's title is like  love + sex  with robots,  merge with robots  , lol,  by an AI and robot expert named  David Levy.  usually this  graduate research library is dominated by humanities book  (mostly a humanities libe w/ little material on science), so the cover and title caught my eye.  it'd be interesting  if you're short of guests to call up.

[brokenportal]

Ide like to see Vijay Pande come on and talk about the importance of the folding@home and what they do with it and everything.

Here are two videos I thought were great. I was wondering if you thought it would be a good idea to put some of these folding videos into the ustream loop.

[lunarsolarpower]

I'd like to hear from Bradley Willcox of the Okinawa Centenarian Study.

[edward]

Great potential person to interview:

Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, longevity nematode researcher, she personally follows a very low carb atkins style diet as she claims it is her best chance to replicate the findings of her research. She wants to live to 150 +. She tried CR but couldn't deal with the hunger so she has stuck to very low carb. She definitely practices what she preaches/researches.


http://www.sfgate.co...CMGD8CH62P1.DTL
http://www.xent.com/...020/026347.html
http://www.newscient...ve-forever.html
http://www.nih.gov/a...ople/kenyon.htm

overview of work:
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:19432

[Mind]

I'll send an invite to Kenyon. I didn't know she was on the low carb diet.

[edward]

Mind, on 29-Oct 2008, 07:13 PM, said:

I'll send an invite to Kenyon. I didn't know she was on the low carb diet.

Yeah she is a big low carber. Just google carbohydrates and kenyon, she says the day the figured out that adding sugar to nematodes diets greatly reduced lifespan and limiting their access to carbohydrates greatly increased it she stopped eating sugar. A google search of Dr. Cynthia Kenyon and Carbohydrates yields a lot of stuff on her personal regimen. Basically low carb. Meats, cheese, eggs, leafy greens, nuts and some berries.... My kind of girl  

Edited by edward, 30 October 2008 - 01:17 AM.

[brokenportal]

Rabbi Neil Gillman
Marc Geddes


Based on what I read about him in Marc Geddes essay in "The Scientific Conquest of Death" I would love to see an interview with Neil Gillman. I copied the part on it below.


"RELIGION
Some people may object to the quest for immortality on
religious grounds. It is argued that extremely long life is somehow
un- natural, that it is ‘against God’s plan’. Yet some of the
strongest allies of the quest for immortality may come from
those of Jewish faith. In Judaism the primary metaphor for
God is that “God is Life”. Judaism may be the religion most
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An Introduction to Immortalist Morality
compatible with ‘immortalist morality’. At a 1999 conference
on life extension, Rabbi Neil Gillman had this to say:

     There is nothing redemptive about death. Death is
     incoherent. Death is absurd.

The rabbi was asked if Jewish tradition would endorse prolonging
human life for twenty years. “Yes”, answered the rabbi.
Forty years? “Yes.” One hundred years? “Yes.” He regarded
the indefinite prolongation of life as a moral good. [7]"