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October 08, 2007
Evolutionary medicine
On September 8th, Anders Sandberg spoke at the SENS conference in Cambridge organized by Aubrey de Grey.
Sandberg's speech When Nature isn't wise: evolutionary medicine and human enhancement regarded the new topic of evolutionary medicine. Sandberg argues, that with the many new opportunities presented with for instance cognitive enhancement and increased lifespan, we should wonder why humanity has not already evolved this? What are the trade-offs of human enhancement? What ought we do with medical technology?
The speech can be downloaded as an MP4 file here >>>
50 speakers discussed effective therapies to postpone and treat human aging by tackling it as an engineering problem: not seeking elusive and probably illusory magic bullets, but instead enumerating the accumulating molecular and cellular changes that eventually kill us and identifying ways to repair those changes, rather than merely to slow down their further accumulation.
Posted by Waldemar at October 8, 2007 02:40 PM