Transhumanism and Radical Longevity

Abstract

A growing minority of scientists and thinkers assert that the main goal of modern science is to defeat death and grant eternal youth to human beings. For scientists, death is not an inevitable fate, but merely a technical problem. People die not because the gods have decreed it, but because of various technical malfunctions—a heart attack, cancer, an infection, etc. However, every technical problem has a technical solution. On the path to "immortality", we must ask ourselves not only "can we?" but especially "should we?" The future will depend on our ability to integrate ethics, fairness, and discernment into the development of these technologies, without losing sight of our humanity.