You are mixing up evolutionary incentives with real chemistry-driven biological constraints. The base incentives of reproduction-driven natural selection may make aging inevitable under natural selection, but that says nothing of artificial selection or bioengineering.
> You are mixing up evolutionary incentives with real chemistry-driven biological constraints
> but that says nothing of artificial selection or bioengineering
Feel free to be specific. Start from here and describe your revelation about my “confusion”:
>> Humans are a special case because we don’t operate only on biological imperatives so you could make immortal humans
Natural life o overwhelmingly selects for well defined, limited lifespans. Engineered human life likely won’t see any natural pressure but rather societal pressure to set a well defined, limited lifespan.
There’s a well-known short story called “ The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant” meant to reveal how ridiculous and nonsensical society’s attitude towards death is. You seem to be taking the opinion that the society shown within, in which death is artificial and societally enforced, is ideal and something to emulate.
I truly don’t know how to respond to this. If you want to die on a rigid time table, fine. Don’t take the rest of us out with you.
