1:17:16The Man Who Says Humans Can Live Forever | Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey opens by correcting the premise: death cannot be abolished, but aging can, because aging is accumulated molecular damage in a machine and machines can be maintained. He is the only senior figure in the field willing to give a number, and he gives it early, a 50/50 chance of longevity escape velocity within 12 to 15 years, noting that twenty years ago he said 25. The biology runs deep, from the indigestible waste that blinds you to the sugar bonds that stiffen your arteries, alongside a specific falsifiable target in mice: beat calorie restriction by two to three times starting at middle age. Peter McCormack spends as much time on the consequences, pushing hard on population, risk, inheritance, religion and whether death is what gives life meaning, which earns the single word bollocks.
