Excerpt: In this essay I combat the criticism that longer life will stymie the spur of progress, a criticism that grows out of Max Planck’s aphorism that “Science advances one funeral at a time”. I argue that even if Planck’s notion is more true than not, indefinite longevity would not only fail to exasperate this concern, but may very well constitute the very thing that could ameliorate it. Continually-increasing longevity will not sate progress but create it and continuate it, on the scale of both self and society. Life is ecstatic strife, and it’s about time we realized that. hplusmagazine/2013/08/02/combatting-the-longer-life-will-slow-progress-criticism/
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:01:03 +0000
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