From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 20:02:06 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> My first question: "What causes aging and how do we prevent it?".
>
> Now of course if Spike was willing to spend $XXX to travel
> halfway across the country to explain an engine problem
> to a bunch of motorheads then he must be willing to pay
> $YYY in a public forum to get an ill-informed answer and
> be able to comment on it (yes?).
Well, Robert, its like this. With my bike problem,
I cheerfully spent the cash because I already know
*exactly* what bolts to turn and which parts to
replace, exactly what to do in order to allow my
fellow riders to age naturally and die of old age
in their beds with weeping family members gathered
around. I do not know how to save them from dying
of old age. I haven't a single insight, not one
clue, on how to prevent or delay aging, other than
to eat sparingly. So I do that, and encourage others
to do likewise.
Nowthen, a couple weeks ago we were discussing forming
a kind of mini-borg, or a highly interconnected group
of people that pool their wisdom to some extent. That
discussion was sidetracked by someone asking how we
can insure equality, etc. I now have a better answer
to that question: I can confidently insure inequality.
If a good mini-borg were to form, it would dominate
less connected companies and corporations, I can assure
you. This will motivate individuals to form bigger and
more interconnected borgs, to compete with the other.
And so it goes.
With a number of competing borgs, we have a new
toolkit to work on such vexing problems as aging and
its effects on individual humans. We need a new and
better toolkit. This problem is kicking our collective
fanny so far. spike
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