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[da vinci]

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Edited by da vinci, 06 May 2007 - 02:22 PM.

[Live Forever]

Go for the M Prize (or the SENS prize) if you have a proposal that you feel is very viable. I would be willing to be excited to see anyone with such a wild "out of the mainstream" proposal win the award!

[caston]

To prolong life, I approached a completely different method. I shorten the subject's life span first. Which means I start with the embryo, cut short the polymere in the end of the DNA to shorten the subject's natural life span. This is to reduce the chances of cells go ill and DNA making mistakes like cancer cells and their growth. Then when the first life span nearly end,thumb]

I'd prefer to up regulate the DNA repair. I don't think the "DNA makes mistakes" as you say. I believe in a programmed theory of ageing that is controlled in accordance with the individuals mental state and progress through their life span. Feelings of trust, love and acceptance and the hormones that make us feel these things are rewards for behaviour that leads to the down regulation of DNA repair and real or simulated breeding.


DNA repair is optimised to give the right balance between maintaining the individuals genetic code while introducing errors that may turn out to be favourable evolutionary mutations. As we are organisms that got to our state of being after billions of years of evolution the brain has evolved to carefully regulate DNA and RNA repair mechanisms. Discovering and gaining control of these mechanisms will allow considerable increase in lifespan. Ageing will only occur as cells slowly fail to respond to DNA damage by keeping up to speed with their DNA repair mechanisms rather than in the current situation where the errors are allowed to slip through for the benefit of a rapidly evolving genome at the expense of the individual.

As well as giving us consciousness the brain is a quantum computer that also has an incredible amount of control of the cellular nanotechnology within the body.

I don't know if this idea could be applied to the mprize.

Edited by caston, 16 April 2007 - 09:18 AM.