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Why science unable to control Death ?

Sapiens

Polymathematician
After decades of prosperity and success,
But still science is unable to escape "Death" why ?
Because death is essential for natural selection to work, we leave it to the religionists to spread the lie that they can cheat death and thus pretend to avoid the almost transcendental link that natural selection provides in bridging the previous generation to the next generation through the missing link: the current generation.

"... earth to earth; ashes to ashes, dust to dust" (Book of Common Prayer), at least they just "hope" for resurrection.

Shakespeare does it better, as usual:

We fat all creatures else to fat us,
and we fat ourselves for maggots.
Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service,
two dishes, but to one table.
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king,
and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
I do show you now how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Hamlet, Act 4 Scene 2 Page 2 - Soliloquized
 

Runewolf1973

Materialism/Animism
Universally, nothing ever ceases changing in form or state. Change is fundamental. Any form or state can only ever be temporary. This includes that form or state we call life. Really, what we are unable to escape is not death, it is change.
 

Ouroboros

Coincidentia oppositorum
After decades of prosperity and success,
But still science is unable to escape "Death" why ?
"Decades of prosperity and success" somehow equals success of escaping death? Why?

Centuries of prosperity and success is still eluding economics of escaping economic collapses too. Why is that? Probably because things are a bit more intricate and complex than simple people assume.
 

Laika

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
After decades of prosperity and success,
But still science is unable to escape "Death" why ?

I'm not a scientist, but my guess is is that the biological and genetic deterioation of the human organism via aging remains beyond our ability to prevent. We have however vastly increased life expectancy over the past two centuries (the figure is perhaps more dramatic than the real-life changes because of reduced infant mortality meaning more children survive beyond five years of age). life is longer at least if you are wealthy enough.

my suspicision is that science won't be able to change the natural laws of biological deterioation due to aging, but will still be able to extend life considerably. its only when you start to swap the biological for the mechanical, of flesh for machine, that immortality becomes theocratically possible. machine parts still deterioate but they can be replaced.
 

Thana

Lady
I'm not a scientist, but my guess is is that the biological and genetic deterioation of the human organism via aging remains beyond our ability to prevent. We have however vastly increased life expectancy over the past two centuries (the figure is perhaps more dramatic than the real-life changes because of reduced infant mortality meaning more children survive beyond five years of age). life is longer at least if you are wealthy enough.

my suspicision is that science won't be able to change the natural laws of biological deterioation due to aging, but will still be able to extend life considerably. its only when you start to swap the biological for the mechanical, of flesh for machine, that immortality becomes theocratically possible. machine parts still deterioate but they can be replaced.

Except when you get to the issue of the brain, and then you realize immortality is just a dream.
 

Laika

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Except when you get to the issue of the brain, and then you realize immortality is just a dream.

well, its not impossible that the nureological brain could be replaced by an electronic one with some really advanced technology. but you're right, at the moment thats not an option.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
The proper question is rather "why do people expect death to be avoidable?"

Life, by its own nature and even due to the limitations of existence itself, is unavoidably transitory.

Science is simply the best method of learning about reality. It is entirely unreasonable to expect it to eventually find a way of overcoming death.
 

Erebus

Well-Known Member
Scientists generally try to abide by a code of ethics. To try and achieve immortality is an ethical minefield.
 
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