This book (and the concept in general) deserves it's own thread. Some of the points are a bit dated and many of the ideas are being used in several fields but the concept of looking to nature for solutions is an important one. This book gives a good intro and relevant examples. To immortalists, the paradoxical question is:
"If it had to, how would nature defeat aging?"
By it's very existance, it already does. A cyclical chain of chemical reactions with repair mechanisms that spawns a multitude of near identical copies that in turn compete with each other for survival. Our problem is that we don't want to create more copies but would rather keep a particular instances of specific copies functioning. Given the harshness of the universe nature has built some pretty nifty repair mechanisms. To meet our objective our job we will need to remove anything that impedes these, improve upon the ones that are already there and continue building more. Makes SENS to me.
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Edit: Fixed grammar
Edited by maestro949, 24 August 2006 - 12:40 AM.
