[Editors Note. This is a revised version of an essay previously published on this site. I warn readers that it contains personal reflections on topics like suicide and meaninglessness that some may find disturbing.]
What’s It All About?
Sylvia Jane Wojcik / December 31, 2021 Continue reading What’s It All About?
In my last two posts, I have replied to the overpopulation objection to radical life extension, the most common objection to those of us who want to defeat death. While my defense of indefinite lifespans has so far centered around moral concerns, the computer scientist Alexandre Maurer has recently offered mathematical reasons to doubt the whole premise of the overpopulation objection to longer lifespans. Continue reading Overpopulation and Living Forever – Part 3
[I apologize to my readers. I discovered a few days after publication that this essay is virtually identical to my previous post. I would take it down but I would then lose the reader comments .] Continue reading Overpopulation and Living Forever – Part 2
[This column is dedicated to my mother, Mary Jane Hurley Messerly (1919-2005).]
I have been engaged in a dialogue with a scientist who is doing anti-aging research. Continue reading Overpopulation and Living Forever – Part 1
John Leslie (1940 – ) is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. In his essay “Why Not Let Life Become Extinct?” he argues that we ought not to embrace the view that extinction would be best. Continue reading “Why Not Let Life Become Extinct?”
