#E28 To Defeat Aging, We Must First Acknowledge That It Can Be Cured, With Aubrey de Grey

"A large part of it is simply learned helplessness, as in like, we've been terribly aware of aging since the beginning of civilization and we have been completely unable to do anything about it. So we have simply developed these ways to put it out of our minds and get on with our miserably short lives and made the best of it, rather than being preoccupied with this terrible thing that's going to happen to us."

On this episode of HYPERSCALE, I am joined by Aubrey de Grey, a world-famous transhumanist, writer, and biomedical gerontologist who has been researching the medical answer to aging in humans for over 30 years. He currently serves as President and Chief Science Officer at Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation.

Aubrey notes that now that we have an actual plan to address aging, through tangible, tested medical science, we can begin to tackle and hopefully erode this entrenched learned helplessness surrounding the supposed inevitability of aging. After all, he believes that almost every aspect and side effect of aging is replicated in a kind of sped-up manner in certain diseases.

Fortunately, there's been more funding in longevity research now than there was even five years ago. However, Aubrey notes that this funding is extremely unevenly distributed, where an overwhelming majority of it is going to a few "fashionable, let's call them low hanging areas, areas where progress has been made rapidly and where there's a good chance of making revenue fairly soon," he explains. "Because this is coming from investors more than from donors."

Still, the fact that there is a greater number of people that are interested in longevity and the future of the human body bodes well for a future free of death. Ultimately, he emphasized, it's absolutely critical to understand that the idea of bringing aging under comprehensive medical control is "very much science foreseeable now, not science fiction."

Join us in this exciting conversation as we hear from one of the greatest minds in the field of transhumanism, and what his vision for the future is like.

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