The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea

Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial... by mrmonkeyman on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:56AM (#19884802)

For some reason people see aging as an illness, some unfortunate byproduct of natural processes.

It is not. It is tuned to pefection. You are _made_ to die, it is builtin, it is a feature. Notice how from 0 to 20 you don't "age", you just get stronger and better. How? Some species are considered young in their 40s.

You consume enough nutrients and energy to constantly fix yourself. You won't. Why? You need to die for evolution to work. Just die already.

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Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial... by toasterlovin on Saturday May 11, 2019 @03:42AM (#19885088)

We have not evolved to die. Rather we have not had enough selection pressure to evolve ways to make us live longer. Big difference.

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Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial... by ajmarcic on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:35PM (#19895311)

Elders' need for care may have burdened the success of their living descendants. In this sense we may have evolved to die.

A counterargument is that past generations lived too rarely to the point of natural death ("Intrinsic senescence") to experience selective pressure. I feel the burden of proof is in showing this.

An interesting discussion is whether or how an encoded trait that's negatively selected for is different than one that was never factored into the equation.

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Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial... by TomMarius on Saturday May 11, 2019 @04:00AM (#19885134)

It might've been a feature originally, however I changed my mind which is another thing we evolved for.

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