On December 6, local time, Musk said at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Forum that there is no secret to fighting aging, and said that death is of great significance to human beings, and on November 14, Musk sneered at the 80-year-old US senator on Twitter for being too old.
In the video interview, Musk roughly expressed his point that he believes that longevity means the rigidity of the human mind, and he himself has not understood the so-called longevity technology. Regarding Musk's previous sentence, I personally agree, but for his last sentence, it is estimated that no one will believe it, because he does not have to worry about medical treatment, he does not have to worry about many things, so even if it is more natural to live, life expectancy is not too short, to know that there are countries and regions in the world with an average life expectancy of only forty years old.
But the problem mentioned by Musk in the first half of the sentence is indeed a problem, first of all, because of the improvement of medical technology, human life expectancy has increased, and modern humans are still exploring technologies that can make people live longer. In fact, such a technology has been pursued by human beings since ancient times, Western alchemy, Eastern alchemy, etc., have such a purpose, and alchemy and alchemy and the origin of chemistry and medicine are related, to modern medical technology to achieve the improvement of human life expectancy.
In modern times, scientists know more about the secrets of genes and the secrets of human aging, and have also discovered some biological principles that may be used to directly increase human lifespan in the future. No, China's scientific team found a substance, from a specific grape seed to extract PCC1 (proanthocyanidin C1), PCC1 can efficiently and safely remove senescent cells, using PCC1 alone on senescent mice, helping them extend the healthy median lifespan by 64.2%. Although it is still in the feasibility study stage, the effect is worth looking forward to.
Internationally, similar drugs and technical means for maintenance or prolongation of life are not many, the most basic is modern medicine, to give a well-known example, One of Apple's founders, Jobs, because of pancreatic cancer and transplanted pancreas twice, the first transplant was also active for several years, but the second time failed to hold. The problem was that if he didn't have the wealth and status of the time, the first transplant operation might have been difficult to do, and the pancreas-related surgery was complicated, but he lived for a few more years.
We don't have to listen to the rich people who say why they don't pay attention to the news of longevity, they don't tell you how much money you spend a year on medical treatment, medical examination. The latter question is also worth paying attention to, human life expectancy continues to increase, if the genes or drug technology that can make people live longer can greatly increase people's life expectancy again, then is it a good thing or a bad thing for today's world? If you only talk about one technology, there will be two sides, and there must be good and bad.
On the bright side, many outstanding scientists have a short lifespan, which makes people very sorry, if such people can live for a few more years, then it is very beneficial to the development of human science and technology in a short period of time, modern science is not to say that it has stagnated, but because scientists in the early 20th century created a lot of great disciplines, and now on this basis there is a breakthrough, but modern scientists can continue to deepen research in a certain field of a certain discipline. For example, in the early 20th century, quantum science was still being talked about, and modern quantum technology has been born.
The bad side is what Musk said, people can't live too long, we used to have a word called Haoshou Poor Classic, maybe a lifetime is like that, there is no breakthrough in reading broken books, because a person's digestion of knowledge content is more rigid, it is difficult to propose innovation. If the human life expectancy only increases by a few tens of years, it is better, but if immortality is achieved, then the class will be more solidified, the management and ruling class will not be replaced for a long time, or there is no new consciousness integration in the scientific and ideological circles, and it is easy to decay and rigidity, and it is difficult to promote the evolution of the human civilization level.
The pursuit of longevity is not a bad thing, it can promote the continuous improvement of related biological, medical, and medical technologies, so that human beings are close to the limit of life expectancy within the physiological range, at this time, the human reproductive age and the like may be delayed, but the entire human population is still constantly changing, then there is still the ability to promote human progress. If you stop the update, it may be more dangerous.
The organism itself expresses such a law, the organism needs to reproduce, and the core of reproduction is to copy the nucleic acid to the offspring, the accidental error in the replication is the gene mutation, so the reproduction of the individual and the previous generation is the same, but the accumulation of mutations in this process leads to the change of the gene pool, lasting millions of millions of years, then the genes of the organism may be unrecognizable, becoming a new organism. In this way, organisms evolve and adapt to the changing world through this process.
The world is constantly changing, if the biological population stagnates, it will certainly not work, but if it is only used for limited areas, such as future interstellar travel, human life expectancy is only one or two hundred years, even if humans can travel at the speed of light, but the scope of the universe is hundreds of billions of light years, and there is no long life span.