There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives human lifespan debate

Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by visarga on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:56AM (#17429673)

As we live, we forget stuff, we change, the situation around us changes. So it's as if we gradually die every day, to be replaced with a new self. The day we physically die is just the last time we die. Not to mention that we experience nothingness and coming back every night.

By analogy, is a continually trained neural net the same as a previous version of itself? Is it a different one, especially after a long time? Did the old version end/die by continuous accumulation of changes?

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Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by newman8r on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:44AM (#17429791)

Reminds me of the ship of Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

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Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by sgt101 on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:55AM (#17429822)

Contrast your idea to the ideas used in the search for life on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is very near its chemical equilibrium, the Earths atmosphere is dynamic; Mars is (more or less) dead, Earth is (not as) alive (as it should be if we weren't messing it up). My point is that change is life; stasis is death. On the day we die our body begins a journey to chemical equilibrium, our brains reach electrical equilibrium rather quickly. Then they stop there.

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Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by llamaz on Saturday June 30, 2018 @03:00AM (#17429835)

This was the insight of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

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