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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by sol_remmy on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:58AM (#16430345)
"IMO, aging is just a way to ensure that dying occurs"

The research 100% disagrees with you.

Aging even occurs in computers: every computer will eventually get in an unexpected state that it cannot recover from. This could even be caused by a stray UV ray that flips a bit in an important memory sector.

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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by sametmax on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:41AM (#16430716)
Computers are not autonomous self repairing and duplicating systems with the goal of survival hardcoded.
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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by sol_remmy on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:31PM (#16440636)
But computers are also very simple and very regimented systems where everyone makes the assumption that their state will never accidentally change and yet they still age
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