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>Aging and death is not an accident or a deterioration from damage or a drift away from a correct instruction set. It is an absolute hard necessity, without which we would all be long gone.

Not buying this at all. This view is completely at odds against multicellular organisms that can literally clone themselves.

Everything we know about aging so far points towards the deterioration of renewal mechanisms that keeps our system functional. Cells die due to a host of reasons besides programming. For example, they may become non-functional and eliminated by the immune system.

parent NL807 1 month ago

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