First of all, I am not a touter of modern technology, I am a rational big data analyst.
Whether it is the world or China, the average life expectancy of the population began to grow after the Industrial Revolution, after The 50s and 60s after World War II, because the world order was established without war, human beings entered the golden age, the average life expectancy of the Chinese has risen rapidly, and the average life expectancy of Chinese has increased from 44 years in the early 60s to 77 years old now. After 60 years of growth of 30 years, will we now grow in 60 years and our life expectancy will increase sharply?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > the ultimate lifespan of humans in each era? </h1>
Our average life expectancy has more than doubled in 150 years, but in those 150 years, the longest-lived human being has grown from 111 to 117 to 117, with a record of 110 years as early as 1899.
The current Guinness World Record for life expectancy is held at 122 years by Jeanne Carmen of France, and has not been changed since 1997, except that no one has lived to 120 years, which means that our average life expectancy growth has not pushed up the limit of human lifespan. Is it possible to say that the current improvement in the standard of living in science and technology, the reduction in the probability of human beings dying from famine and violent plagues, and the increasing number of stubborn diseases being conquered only give human beings the opportunity to live to the life we should have, and will not allow us to obtain a life expectancy without an upper limit?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > nature is already helping humans "live forever."</h1>
The process of human longevity can be visualized in terms of "trash can theory".
"Trash can theory": Single-celled organisms will leave "damage" in a cell after division when dividing, and this cell that remains in "damage" can be regarded as a mother, and when the "damage" accumulates for a long time, the mother will die and take away the damage, leaving a healthy "offspring".
We can liken "damaged cells" to ourselves and "new cells" to our children. We can understand that our affection, our unwarranted love for future generations, and the act of sacrificing ourselves to protect them are the instincts that cells give us to continue to achieve "eternal life" for self-realization.
The fundamental reason why nature has given us "immortality" is that it is difficult to maintain our cell activity for a long time, and the damage caused by the environment is inevitable, but it is much simpler to preserve the genetic genes contained in it. We can create new vectors to inherit our message. Our descendants live and die from generation to generation, but the information can be preserved. Nature believes that as long as the genetic information of DNA can be passed on, our lives can continue forever.
The resource energy of nature is to keep the genetics unchanged, not the eternal survival of the individual. That's why rats can only survive for three years, humans can live for seventy or eighty years, and turtles can live for hundreds of years, and the fundamental reason is that the more difficult it is to reproduce, the longer the life cycle of organisms, because nature will give you time to inherit your genes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > modern science's attempt at "immortality."</h1>
1. Cryonics technology
Scientists have found that in the case of no harm to the human body, if the body's body temperature is reduced to two degrees, by reducing the body's metabolic rate, then the person may live for 120-150 years longer.
It is worth mentioning that although modern scientific research has produced "cryonics technology", there has not yet been a successful case of thawing. Moreover, the irony is that we have not developed a method of "human thawing". We are just gambling about the future at the end of our lives.
2. Attempts to clone creatures
The advent of "Clone Sheep Dolly" marks the opening of the world's cloning technology. The movie "Escape from The Island of Clones" reflects the reality that rich people can prolong their life by cloning themselves and replacing them with new organs that do not have a rejection reaction when one of their body organs fails. It's like if a part on a robot is changed, and we replace it with something better.
If one day in the future, human beings have developed a grafting method of "consciousness", perhaps human beings can achieve eternal life. Although "human cloning" is prohibited internationally because of the many ethical and social problems that arise, some countries that think they are at the top of the pyramid may be trying.
3. Consciousness is immortal
An immortal plan was presented at the International Future Conference 2045 in Moscow in March 2012, which was divided into four phases. The first stage allows humans to remotely control robots. The second stage is to create an intelligent robot with a blank thinking. The third stage is to create artificial brain devices that allow humans to upload their own minds to the device. The fourth stage is to create a holographic body and virtual survival.
In fact, these ideas have appeared in many movies, such as "virtual games", "upload new students" and so on.
4. Head replacement surgery
Using animals as the test vector, the world's first head replacement surgery was carried out by Ren Xiaoping's team in China, and the final result was that the monkey successfully had a physiological response, but because the bone marrow nerves could not be docked, the monkey was paralyzed below the neck, and for ethical reasons, the doctor only let the monkey survive for 20 hours. The attempt to change the head also opens another door to eternal life for us.
Man's quest for eternal life never ceases, for human beings are a combination of reason and desire. Even if our technology meets the required conditions one day in the future, when some people are immortalized, the earth will establish a new order, and behind the establishment of order will be countless bloody storms. Will humanity be destroyed in war? Or is it heading towards the universe in a new order? Our children and grandchildren will wait and see.
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