Immortality

The Natural Selection Of The Immortal Soul: A Thought Experiment (VI)

Evan Eisenberg | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Immortal Soul, Science, Religion and Science, Ancestor Worship, Life After Death, Natural Selection, Immortality, Evolution, Religion News

Following Darwinian logic, we end up in some unexpected places. Of course, to get there we must accept the premise that the human mind might be capable of existing independently of the neuronal activity on which it usually depends.

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Somebody You Used to Know Forever and Ever

Amalia Negreponti | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: The Internet, Steve Jobs, Gotye, Facebook, Internet Freedom, Immortality, Internet Censorship, Google, Ipad, Technology News

The Internet is our first success in the quest for a kind of "forever" and "togetherness." Through its amazing innovations we stay 'on' all the time, connected to one another, alive through this connection of ours.

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The Natural Selection Of The Immortal Soul: A Thought Experiment

Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Charles Darwin, Life After Death, Natural Selection, Immortal Soul, Immortality, Science, Darwinism, Evolution, Religion and Science, Science and Religion, Religion News

How would creationists react if someone were to suggest that the survival of the soul after death, far from being ruled out by the theory of natural selection, might actually be predicted as a consequence of that theory?

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How Creativity Connects with Immorality

| Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Creativity, Harvard, Video, Art, Art Meets Science, Immortality, Ethics, Dishonesty, Duke University, Creative Genius, Genius, Arts News

In the mid 1990's, Apple Computers was a dying company. Microsoft's Windows operating system was overwhelmingly favored by consumers, and Apple's at...

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TED and TEDActive Offer Immersive Inspiration and Radical Insight

Jason Silva | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Jason Silva, Art, Optimism, Immortality, Design, Singularity, Wonder, Technology, Ted, Possibility, Video, Impact News

"He who speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthralls and overpowers, while at the same time he lifts the idea he is trying ...

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Would You Trade Sex For Immortality? These Worms Might

Reuters | Kate Kelland | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Flatworm Immortal, Planarian Worms, Video, Flatworm Study, Immortal Worms, Asexual Worm, Immortality, Reuters, Immortal Worm, Flatworm, Aziz Aboobaker, Planaria Telomerase, Green News

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Who wants to live forever? Some flatworms do, even if it means no sex. British scient...

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What Is Death?

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Aging, Time, Wisdom, Consciousness, Immortality, Death and Dying, Immanuel Kant, Healthy Living News

Reality is observer-determined -- it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately, means that things must change.

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Le Chaim!

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Destruction, Recovery, Dying, Nurses, Pneumonia, Immortality, Health, Hospitals, Mortality, Earthquake, Living, Doctors, Love, Haiti, Personal Health, Heart Failure, Healthy Living News

We are fragile corporal fragments. We bleed, we breathe. When we are pulled into the theater of illness we suddenly, simultaneously, feel our ephemeral immortal pulse. One we measure, the other we sense.

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The 'Transcendent' Singularity is Near

Jason Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Singularity, Kurzweil, Man, Singularity, Transcendent, Technology, Immortality, Impact News

Barry Ptolemy's film, Transcendent Man, is the absolute best cinematic exploration of Ray Kurzweil and his paradigm shifting ideas.

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Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death-Rates, Immortality, Bioengineering, Technology News

I used to be a big fan of living forever. Since humans have gone beyond basic biology, I thought, why not re-engineer ourselves for a lifetime without an end point? Well, it turns out there are problems -- beyond the tedium of boorish men.

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Is Death The End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Biocentrism, Biocentrism Theory, Immortality, Death & Dying, Robert Lanza Biocentrism, Biocentric Theory, Death Immortality, Death Time, Death End, Healthy Living News

Life is just one fragment of time, one brushstroke in a picture larger than ourselves, eternal even when we die. This is the indispensable prelude to immortality.

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Technology and Adultery: Is Ashley Madison Immoral?

Jonathan Ezer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Matchmaking, Marriage, Infidelity, Ashley Madison, Immortality, Sex, Freedom, Dating, Christianity, Morality, Technology, Nbc, Video, Healthy Living News

My wife recently came home appalled by an ad she saw in a newspaper for Ashley Madison, a dating website that encourages and assists marital infidelity. Their slogan, "Life is Short. Have an Affair" has generated a lot of attention. Is Ashley Madison immoral? Or is profiting from adultery fair game?

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Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Are there circumstances in which patient autonomy, as expressed through surrogates, should be overruled in the name of resource allocation and/or sound medical practice?

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Ray Kurzweil Has Seen the Future, and the Machine Is Us (VIDEO)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robotics, Singularity, Biotech, Future, Transhumanism, Immortality, Ray Kurzweil, Technology News

If you haven't already downloaded the article into your brain, the New York Times blew the cover on the trans-humanist movement this weekend, just as ...

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A Little Boost for Immortality

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dna, Information, Immortality, Science, Religion, Mortality, Healthy Living News

Gradually science has had to confront the possibility of immortality -- not yet for the soul but for the basic fabric of the universe.

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Current TV's Jason Silva is thinking about Death - a lot.

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immortality, Steve Rosenbaum, Curation Nation, Current TV, Al Gore, magnify.net, Jason-Silva, Death, Media News

He's one of the best-known faces on Al Gore's TV network Current TV. Venezuelan born media persona Jason Silva is some newfangled hybrid of Journalis...

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Immortal Jellyfish Swarming Across The World

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jellyfish, Marine Life, Animals, Immortality, Turritopsis Nutricula, Ocean, Green News

Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die. ...

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Aging "Modifiable": Most Babies Born This Century Will Live To 100, Research Shows

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Long Life, Aging, Aging Research, Baby, Anti-Aging, Health, Immortality, Engineer-Human-Immortality, Lifespan, Babies, Wellness, Healthy Living News

LONDON — Most babies born in rich countries this century will eventually make it to their 100th birthday, new research says. Danish experts say ...

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Live Forever: Technology For Immortality Only 20 Years Away, Scientist Claims

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Live Forever, Stay Young, Nanotechnology, Immortality, Ray Kurzweil, Technology News

The 61-year-old American, who has predicted new technologies arriving before, says our understanding of genes and computer technology is accelerating ...

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Digital Immortality and Death 2.0

Scott Lachut | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Death 2.0, Web 2.0, Psfk, Customs, Immortality, Virtual, Digital, Death, Real, Culture, Healthy Living News

Particularly in the case of social media, when taken together the multitude of eternal digital data forms a history of a person's life.

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