The goal of human civilisation is the conquest of death and immortality is mankind's evolutionary destiny, feels jose cordeiro
For almost four billion years, reproduction has been the
only method for species of multi-cellular organisms to remain alive. If more organisms are born, more organisms survive beyond their reproductive age and the species does not become extinct. The life of each individual is not important as long as they reproduce. Even death has been programmed into the organism's DNA to make sure they do not compete for their offspring's resources. The species has thus become the new immortal organism. However, some species become extinct when all organisms die before being able to reproduce. Evolution had to find a better way to avoid death.
Adaptation of some multi-cellular organisms to new environmental conditions favoured the creation of a central nervous system which made them more intelligent. With this intelligence, it became possible to better defend against environmental threats. Massive reproduction has been a very successful surviving method, but evolution found an even better way: having less offspring but taking such good care of them to make sure they do not die before they reproduce. It is no longer the quantity but the quality of life, the surviving factor of the species. How could humans take that next evolutionary step and become the first immortal species on earth? First, we have to understand our own internal replication both at the procedural level and at the molecular level. Second, we have to reprogram our genes to get rid of evolution's primitive alternative to immortality: cellular death. Third, we have to avoid or repair cellular decay. Fourth, we have to defend ourselves against any environmental threat. And finally, we have to implement an efficient process of internal evolutionary development to improve our functioning with respect to the environment.
Discoveries in different areas like biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and neuro sciences are shaping the way for future immortal human beings. Anti-aging medicine, life extension treatments and longevity clinics are just the tip of the iceberg. Science is showing us, here and now, what religion promised to do, but only beyond our space and time. Maybe science will eventually fulfil the role of religion and make us gods. For example, we are already creating the first forms of artificial intelligence and even artificial life. Maybe we will transcend our present biological constraints and leave behind our bodies. Future beings might be based in silicon bodies or other materials. Human minds might be uploaded and transferred to different physical environments and separate virtual realities. Theoretically, our consciousness would have no definitive nor necessary end. That would already be a form of immortality.
This approach to immortality is based on science and not religion, on physics and not metaphysics, on reason and not faith, on natural and not supernatural views. Modern science is not just concerned with the possibility of life after death. We are now looking at ways to prevent death, to extend our physical life indefinitely. From a scientific point of view, death is the termination of life and, thus, immortality would be life’s ultimate achievement.
It has been a very long journey since the appearance of life in our planet. In the beginning, the primitive cells did not have the intelligence to become immortal but they have been able to evolve into beings which may eventually do so in future. When the first multi-cellular organisms appeared, immortality was their objective; when intelligence evolved, immortality was their goal; and now, technology shows the potential to finally make it happen. Let us not waste this transcendental opportunity. The goal of human history and civilisation is the conquest of death. Immortality is our evolutionary destiny.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
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For almost four billion years, reproduction has been the
only method for species of multi-cellular organisms to remain alive. If more organisms are born, more organisms survive beyond their reproductive age and the species does not become extinct. The life of each individual is not important as long as they reproduce. Even death has been programmed into the organism's DNA to make sure they do not compete for their offspring's resources. The species has thus become the new immortal organism. However, some species become extinct when all organisms die before being able to reproduce. Evolution had to find a better way to avoid death.Adaptation of some multi-cellular organisms to new environmental conditions favoured the creation of a central nervous system which made them more intelligent. With this intelligence, it became possible to better defend against environmental threats. Massive reproduction has been a very successful surviving method, but evolution found an even better way: having less offspring but taking such good care of them to make sure they do not die before they reproduce. It is no longer the quantity but the quality of life, the surviving factor of the species. How could humans take that next evolutionary step and become the first immortal species on earth? First, we have to understand our own internal replication both at the procedural level and at the molecular level. Second, we have to reprogram our genes to get rid of evolution's primitive alternative to immortality: cellular death. Third, we have to avoid or repair cellular decay. Fourth, we have to defend ourselves against any environmental threat. And finally, we have to implement an efficient process of internal evolutionary development to improve our functioning with respect to the environment.
Discoveries in different areas like biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and neuro sciences are shaping the way for future immortal human beings. Anti-aging medicine, life extension treatments and longevity clinics are just the tip of the iceberg. Science is showing us, here and now, what religion promised to do, but only beyond our space and time. Maybe science will eventually fulfil the role of religion and make us gods. For example, we are already creating the first forms of artificial intelligence and even artificial life. Maybe we will transcend our present biological constraints and leave behind our bodies. Future beings might be based in silicon bodies or other materials. Human minds might be uploaded and transferred to different physical environments and separate virtual realities. Theoretically, our consciousness would have no definitive nor necessary end. That would already be a form of immortality.
This approach to immortality is based on science and not religion, on physics and not metaphysics, on reason and not faith, on natural and not supernatural views. Modern science is not just concerned with the possibility of life after death. We are now looking at ways to prevent death, to extend our physical life indefinitely. From a scientific point of view, death is the termination of life and, thus, immortality would be life’s ultimate achievement.
It has been a very long journey since the appearance of life in our planet. In the beginning, the primitive cells did not have the intelligence to become immortal but they have been able to evolve into beings which may eventually do so in future. When the first multi-cellular organisms appeared, immortality was their objective; when intelligence evolved, immortality was their goal; and now, technology shows the potential to finally make it happen. Let us not waste this transcendental opportunity. The goal of human history and civilisation is the conquest of death. Immortality is our evolutionary destiny.
For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
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