WeCanDoThisCNJ t1_j226hn7 wrote
Reply to comment by Future_Ad8697 in One thing people often forget about immortality is that the effects of dementia will render you useless sooner rather than later by exmxn
Immortality isn’t reality for complex organisms like vertebrates, so you lost us with the first sentence.
Future_Ad8697 t1_j22bkxd wrote
My point was that a realistic definition of immortality is having the capacity to live forever, rather than necessarily living forever.
I understand that humans aren't capable of reverting to an embryo and redeveloping endlessly, in a manner analogous to a jellyfish.
But maybe it's possible that there exists some sequence of nucleotides which would enable some human-like species to naturally regenerate specialized cells/extracellular structures, and avoid or repair life-cycle dysregulating mutations associated with aging, to approach something like immortality in a complex organism.
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