Dear God
Instead of allowing people to die and then having to make new ones, why don't you keep those already alive today? Letter by Lily, age 6
I think that this apparently simple letter contains an incredible suggestion. That we must have the inborn, innate capability of living forever, built in our genes. I have developed the E.L.P.Is theory (Extreme Lifespans through Perpetual-equalising Interventions) which holds that:
1. The immortality mechanism is innate but not activated at present
2. It operates at the most basic level and at the earliest time during development
3. It can be described, studied, activated and maintained
4. The technology for this may not yet be fully available, but it will in the near future
The 'Perpetual Equaliser' mechanism needs to be activated once at the stage of the blastocyst (just after conception) and will continually act on the DNA in a way to prevent damage due to aging, continually equalising the odds against early age-related death.
Suggestions on how this might work include the use of transposons such as the Sleeping Beauty transposon, that acts on specific parts of the DNA to activate parts that have been evolutionally dormant for millions of years. Acetylation and/or methylation of DNA also needs to be controlled.
Why this theory is different
1. It asserts that the mechanism already exists. It should be activated before birth, and not as commonly believed, after birth when aging sets in
2. It needs just one intervention to activate it. Current opinion is that ant-iaging treatments should be continual and repeated
3. It affords extreme longevities, on going life
4. Once we have the technology in place it would be easy to achieve. This is because because the mechanism has already been put in place by Nature.
Philosopher: "Human is a creature that thinks about death"
Enlightened scientist: "Human is a creature that thinks about immortality"
