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John Smart, co-founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation—an organization dedicated to the study of maintaining brain function after our biological death—argues that the "redundant, resilient and distributed" nature of long-term memory makes it possible to preserve significant portions of our identity after death. 
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Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.
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What happens to life if you remove death? How do our decisions change when the “long term” becomes “indefinite”? These are the sort of things that one asks themselves when confronted with the...
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Ray Kurzweil's bold predictions about the future are real headline grabbers. By 2029 he predicts computers will become more intelligent that humans, overtaking our ability to solve important problems. That could mean the end of disease and, more profoundly, the end of mortality. Kurzweil himself takes several hundred daily supplements, preserving the integrity of this body until the day comes when his consciousness can be interfaced with machines.
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The little creature of the sea that appears to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world: you are born, and then you die.
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A medical mushroom has joined the modern age, now among the ranks of gene-mapped organisms.
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The topic of “Life after death” raises disreputable connotations of past-life regression and haunted houses, but there are a large number of people in the world who believe in some form of persistence of the individual soul after life ends. Clearly this is an important question, one of the most important ones we can possibly think of in terms of relevance to human life. If science has something to say about, we should all be interested in hearing.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Who wants to live forever? Some flatworms do, even if it means no sex.
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People have searched for the secret to everlasting life since ancient times. Now, scientists say they may be close to achieving immortality, or something close to it.
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