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SENS is a detailed plan for curing human aging. It is an engineering project, recognising that aging is a medical condition and that medicine is a branch of engineering. Aging is a set of progressive changes in body composition, at the molecular and cellular level, which are side-effects of essential metabolic processes. Many of these changes are eventually bad for us -- they are an accumulation of damage, which becomes pathogenic above a certain threshold of abundance.
Aging, ageing, (or senescence) is not recognized by any government as a target for medical intervention, even though the difference between aging and hereditary disease is only a matter of time. This leaves a niche for this research foundation.
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by Dagonweb, on March 10 2008:
I'd regard developing and using treatments against aging (and living substantially longer) a basic human right and I'd assertively lobby or vote out of power any politician opposing that ideal. If we have enough resources the first human being living to 200 years has been born decades ago. Aging is a disease. Diseases are to be cured. And we demand this for every single human being, rich or poor.
by Navras, on March 10 2008:
Dagonweb makes a very important point. I think his statement was simple, powerful & concise. The following is an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on the term "disease":
"The identification of a condition as a disease, rather than as simply a variation of human structure or function, can have significant social or economic implications. The controversial recognitions as diseases of post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as "Soldier's heart," "shell shock," and "combat fatigue;" repetitive motion injury or repetitive stress injury (RSI); and Gulf War syndrome has had a number of positive and negative effects on the financial and other responsibilities of governments, corporations and institutions towards individuals, as well as on the individuals themselves. The social implication of viewing aging as a disease could be profound, though this classification is not yet widespread."
I think aging is most definitely a disease. Wikipedia defines it as: "..an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and signs. In human beings, 'disease' is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, social problems, and/or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories."
by Andres, on March 11 2008:
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While this has nothing to do with the video, it has a lot to do with a new system for classifying videos for you at Thoughtware.TV. I would appreciate ideas as to which categories you would find useful and would capture the general interests this community has in common:
I've added a few similar to see which you'd prefer. So...what do you think? Too many? Too few? If it were up to you, which would you add, merge or remove? It'll help you get a sense of what a video is about before you watch it, as well as match categories you might be interested in.
by Andres, on March 11 2008:
A few more:
+Bionic
+Implants
+Entertainment
I think the first two could be merged into Cybernetics. I'm unsure whether you'd be interested in having subcategories, but let me know if thats the case.
by Andres, on March 11 2008:
+ Internet
+ World Wide Web
+ Swarm Intelligence
+ Cyberculture
+ Mathematics
+ Chemistry
+ Experiment
+ Mind Uploading
+ Molecular Nanotechnology
+ Molecular Fabrication
+ Education
+ Ethics
+ Astrobiology
+ Tissue Engineering
+ Rejuvenation
Terms like:
+ Enhancement, should probably be attached to a more general category, such as Transhumanism.
Perhaps "+ Virtual Worlds" could be replaced with a simpler "+ Virtual" category, for videos such as:
Virtual Evolution
"Demonstration of genetic algorithm research results shows simulated block creatures performing various evolved behaviors."
3d View Of A Rama Object
"A CGI fly through of a 'Rama', as inspired by the novel Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Created by Eric Bruneton. Music: Miserere by Henry Jackman."
Don't worry about a video falling into multiple categories, the thoughtbots with a little help from you guys, will figure that out and have the best matching categories stand out for a given video, etc.
by Andres, on March 11 2008:
Here's the Thoughtware.TV Category list, without any mergers.
Art, Music, Film, History, Civilization, Documentary, Comedy, Podcast, Inspirational, Climate Change, Commercial, Lecture, Symposium, Conference, Sci-Fi, Medical technology, Cryonics, RFID, Medical imaging, Prosthetics, Holography, Animation, Augmented Reality, 3D Technology, Bioprinting, Energy, Solar Power, Fusion, Atheism, Spirituality, Human Rights, Animal Rights, Savant, Psychopharmacology, Drugs, Lucid Dreaming, Neurotechnology, P2P, A2K, Globalization, Poverty, Human Development, Growth, Inequality, Astronomy, Materials science, Sex, Love, Stem Cells, Military, War, Architecture, Urban Planning, Basic Income, Democracy, Water Technology, Transportation, Telepresence, Anthropology, Pandemic, Vaccine, Cancer, Biohacking, Distributed Computing, Personal Genomics, Collaboration, News Roundup.
by Arlind, on March 11 2008:
here are some more (sub)categories:
Art, Music, Film, History, Civilization, Documentary, Comedy, Podcast, Inspirational, Climate Change, Commercial, Lecture, Symposium, Conference, Sci-Fi, Medical technology, Cryonics, RFID, Medical imaging, Prosthetics, Holography, Animation, Augmented Reality, 3D Technology, Bioprinting, Energy, Solar Power, Fusion, Atheism, Spirituality, Human Rights, Animal Rights, Savant, Psychopharmacology, Drugs, Lucid Dreaming, Neurotechnology, P2P, A2K, Globalization, Poverty, Human Development, Growth, Inequality, Astronomy, Materials science, Sex, Love, Stem Cells, Military, War, Architecture, Urban Planning, Basic Income, Democracy, Water Technology, Transportation, Telepresence, Anthropology, Pandemic, Vaccine, Cancer, Biohacking, Distributed Computing, Personal Genomics, Collaboration, News Roundup.
by Yppah, on March 11 2008:
Maybe...?
+ Agriculture
+ Behavioral and Social Sciences
+ Life Sciences
+ Conflict and Security Issues
+ Earth Sciences
+ Education Energy and Energy Conservation
+ Environment and Environmental Studies
+ Food & Nutrition Health and Medicine
+ Industry and Labor
+ Inspiring & Encouragement
+ Transportation and Infrastructure
+ Policies for Science and Technology
by Navras, on March 11 2008:
How about this list:
Religion (theology is in it there)
Mythology (fits into history)
Government (worth adding)
Human Enhancement
Animal Enhancement
Challenge (for things like xprize, mprize and all the others, perhaps?)
Lifestyle
World & Business
Sports
Teleportation (Under physics?)
Pseudoscience (For documentaries debunking paranormal stuff)
DIY (Do it yourself)
Conspiracy (nwo-ftw)
Yppah, how about:
Policies for.. -> Policies or Politics?
Health and Med... -> Health
Health and Medicine -> Medicine
Arlind:
Personal Genomics -> Genomics
The list:
Academia
Anatomy
Animal Rights
Animal Enhancement
Animation
Anthropology
Architecture
Art
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Astronomy
Atheism
Augmented Reality
A2K
Basic Income
Biodiversity
Biohacking
Biology
Bionic
Bioprinting
Biosphere
Biotechnology
Brain Machine Interface
Cancer
Challenge
Chemistry
Civilization
Climate Change
Collaboration
Commercial
Computation
Conference
Consciousness
Conspiracy
Cosmos
Cryonics
Cyberculture
Cybernetics
Cyberspace
Cyborg
Distributed Computing
Democracy
Documentary
Drugs
DYI
Economics
Education
Energy
Engineering
Enhancement
Ethics
Evolution
Existential Risk
Experiment
Film
Food & Nutrition
Fusion
Future
Gaming
Genetics
Genomics
Government
Great Apes
Growth
Hacking
Hardware
Health
History
Holography
Human & Machine
Human Development
Human Enhancement
Human Machine Interface
Human Rights
Immortality
Implants
Inequality
Internet
Inspirational
Jurisprudence
Lifestyle
Lecture
Longevity
Love
Lucid Dreaming
Materials science
Mathematics
Medical technology
Medical imaging
Medicine
Megaverse
Metaverse
Military
Mind Uploading
Molecular Fabrication
Molecular Nanotechnology
Music
Nanotechnology
Nature
Neuroscience
Neurotechnology
News Roundup
Other
Pandemic
Philosophy
Physics
Podcast
Politics
Posthumanity
Poverty
Progress
Prosthetics
Pseudoscience
Psychology
Psychopharmacology
P2P
Rapid Prototyping
Reason
Rejuvenation
RFID
Robotics
Savant
Science
Sci-Fi
Security
Sex
Simulation
Singularity
Society
Software
Solar Power
Space
Spirituality
Sports
Stem Cells
Symposium
Swarm Intelligence
Technology
Teleportation
Telepresence
Theology
Tissue Engineering
Transhumanism
Transportation
Universe
Universal Evolution
Urban Planning
Vaccine
Virtual Worlds
War
Water Technology
World & Business
World Wide Web
World Wide Mind
3D Technology
by Patricia, on March 11 2008:
Take these into consideration too:
Activism
Aging
Aids
Aircrafts
Alternative energy
Biomechanics
Buddhism
Business
Cars
Christianity
Cities
Cognitive science
Communication
Community
Complexity
Consumerism
Cooperation
Corruption
Creativity
Culture
Death
Design
Development
Disaster relief
Disease
Entertainment
Entrepreneur
Epidemiology
Exploration
Faith
Global Issues
God
Google
Happiness
Health care
Housing
Humanity
Humor
Illusion
Industrial design
Innovation
Intelligence
Interface design
Invention
Investment
Language
Law
Leadership
Literature
Magic
Marketing
Media
Medicine
Meme
Memory
Microfinance
Nasa
Oceans
Parenting
Peace
Performance art
Personal growth
Philanthropy
Photography
Poetry
Pollution
Primates
Prodigy
Product design
Race
Religion
Shopping
Social change
Spoken word
State-building
Statistics
Storytelling
Sustainability
Tech support
TED Prize
Telecom
Third world
Violence
Visualizations
Web
Wikipedia
World cultures
Writing
by Patricia, on March 11 2008:
This list contains every term, included up to now [Ordered alphabetically, using Ms-Word] :-)
3D Technology
A2K
Academia
Activism
Aging
Aids
Aircrafts
Alternative energy
Anatomy
Animal Enhancement
Animal Rights
Animation
Anthropology
Architecture
Art
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Life
Astrobiology
Astronomy
Atheism
Augmented Reality
Basic Income
Biodiversity
Biohacking
Biology
Biomechanics
Bionic
Bioprinting
Biosphere
Biotechnology
Brain Machine Interface
Buddhism
Business
Cancer
Cars
Challenge
Chemistry
Christianity
Cities
Civilization
Climate Change
Cognitive science
Collaboration
Commercial
Communication
Community
Complexity
Computation
Conference
Consciousness
Conspiracy
Consumerism
Cooperation
Corruption
Cosmos
Creativity
Cryonics
Culture
Cyberculture
Cybernetics
Cyberspace
Cyborg
Death
Democracy
Design
Development
Disaster relief
Disease
Distributed Computing
Documentary
Drugs
DYI
Economics
Education
Energy
Engineering
Enhancement
Entertainment
Entrepreneur
Epidemiology
Ethics
Evolution
Existential Risk
Experiment
Exploration
Faith
Film
Food & Nutrition
Fusion
Future
Gaming
Genetics
Genomics
Global Issues
God
Google
Government
Great Apes
Growth
Hacking
Happiness
Hardware
Health
Health care
History
Holography
Housing
Human & Machine
Human Development
Human Enhancement
Human Machine Interface
Human Rights
Humanity
Humor
Illusion
Immortality
Implants
Industrial design
Inequality
Innovation
Inspirational
Intelligence
Interface design
Internet
Invention
Investment
Jurisprudence
Language
Law
Leadership
Lecture
Lifestyle
Literature
Longevity
Love
Lucid Dreaming
Magic
Marketing
Materials science
Mathematics
Media
Medical imaging
Medical technology
Medicine
Medicine
Megaverse
Meme
Memory
Metaverse
Microfinance
Military
Mind Uploading
Molecular Fabrication
Molecular Nanotechnology
Music
Nanotechnology
Nasa
Nature
Neuroscience
Neurotechnology
News Roundup
Oceans
Other
P2P
Pandemic
Parenting
Peace
Performance art
Personal growth
Philanthropy
Philosophy
Photography
Physics
Podcast
Poetry
Politics
Pollution
Posthumanity
Poverty
Primates
Prodigy
Product design
Progress
Prosthetics
Pseudoscience
Psychology
Psychopharmacology
Race
Rapid Prototyping
Reason
Rejuvenation
Religion
RFID
Robotics
Savant
Science
Sci-Fi
Security
Sex
Shopping
Simulation
Singularity
Social change
Society
Software
Solar Power
Space
Spirituality
Spoken word
Sports
State-building
Statistics
Stem Cells
Storytelling
Sustainability
Swarm Intelligence
Symposium
Tech support
Technology
TED Prize
Telecom
Teleportation
Telepresence
Theology
Third world
Tissue Engineering
Transhumanism
Transportation
Universal Evolution
Universe
Urban Planning
Vaccine
Violence
Virtual Worlds
Visualizations
War
Water Technology
Web
Wikipedia
World & Business
World cultures
World Wide Mind
World Wide Web
Writing
by Andres, on March 14 2008:
This was extremely helpful. Much thanks to each of you who contributed. :)
by Donjoe, on March 15 2008:
Nice video, but maybe it could've been nicer. I don't think it's clear enough in stating "aging is a disease" or "old people are just sick people taught not to want to be healthy again" etc.
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