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• [Google Presentations] Approaches to Radical Life Extension

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Calorie restriction
- adds maybe 10 to 20 years
- not practical for the elderly
- not exactly what transhumanists are looking to do

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)
http://www.sens.org
- Aubrey de Grey
- controversy over 7 causes of aging

Developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- expert systems for better scientists
- possibly prone to feedback loops

Cybernetics
- enhancing the physical body
- development of wetware

Genetics
- possible to change genetics at embryo or pre-embryo forms
- parents can choose what genetics go in their child (England)
- mapping of genetic blueprints
- Does genetics determine who we are?
- problems with responsibility
- Can we predict destiny with DNA?
- predispositions

Spreading science and transhumanism
- need to change the way we change
- need to speed up education
- use the media to refresh people's minds
- static world views
- provide information to change people's minds
- media + law = progress?
- inspiration is key and essential
- entrance into the arts
- poems, songs, movies, books, artwork, etc.

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Date and Time: Friday, April 13, 2007, 4 PM
Location: Kiewit Auditorium at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell | map
Title: "Methuselah Foundation Research - Views from the bird and the ant"
Presenter: John Schloendorn - Graduate student at Arizona State University Biodesign Institute, The Methuselah Foundation volunteer.
Presentation Description:

The Methuselah Foundation entertains two major projects to expedite a genuine cure for human aging -- The Mprize and SENS research. I will briefly introduce the two, discuss their strategic rationale, and report on their current status. I will then focus on SENS research in particular, and explain its role in the Foundation's quest for massive financial development.

In the second part of the talk, I will show some data from the current Mito- and LysoSENS projects, intended to obviate mitochondrial DNA mutations and cure all age-related storage diseases, respectively.

I hope that this presentation will convince those interested in leveraging the cure for aging ahead that
the Methuselah Foundation is currently the outermost tip of the longest lever, by far.

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Date and Time: Friday, February 02, 2007, 4 PM
Location: Room 2919 at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell | map
Title: "The Methuselah Mouse Prize and the Quest to Cure Age-related Diseases"
Presenter: Fyodor Trestoyevsky, MCB Senior who has performed volunteer work for the Methuselah Foundation, which sponsors the Methuselah Mouse Prize
Presentation Description: The Methuselah Mouse Prize is given to researchers who break longevity records in a mouse model. Fyodor Trestoyevsky will give a short overview of the Methuselah Mouse Prize (currently greater than $4,000,000), the rationale for the prize's existence and how it might contribute to the amelioration of human suffering, the teams that are officially competing for the prize, and the differences between humans and mice in terms of aging.

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