Who is David W. Wood:)? Very nice post sir! Do a proper introduction so I/we can get a better idea of your background please. The comment section praises your work!

Imagine a world where Nicola Tesla didn't die of old-age on his death bed completely alone. Nicola Also Decided not too have a Family and he owned over 200 patents, give immortality too the productive non-Breeders atleast!

I'm pretty sure you're familiar with HLI, Craig Venter, Peter Diamandis and Aubrey de Grey...

For years I was convinced by *the singularity* that some day I would upload my consciousness and live forever. Now that I've been more convinced by *the simulation hypotheses*, I figure it's more likely that I have already uploaded my consciousness to the digital world, and that I'm already living forever.

The question for me has actually changed to... do I want to stick around in this simulation forever? Or see what's next? Or maybe at some point these realities will merge together regardless.

David W. Wood is on Steemit!! Now this platform is starting to get really good!! Welcome, and I look forward to more great posts like this one.

David Wood, thanks for sharing.
I'm interested in this stuff.  I remember the first time  I ever typed into Google the phrase something like "can humans live forever"... ohh what a journey that has taken place since leading me to follow the ideas of visionaries like you, Aubrey De Grey, Bill Andrews, David Sinclair, Ray Kurzweil, and others.  It felt like I was taking a travel through a rabbit hole.  The further I explored, the more my imagination ran, and eventually I began to step away from imagining and start believing this was a decision that will likely be presented to every human being on the planet in the near future.
I've watched several YouTube videos of your stuff during my exponential search.  

I'm glad that I finally get a chance to meet you here on Steemit and say hello.

Thanks again for sharing.
Forever and Forever,

Well , his is something to think about . If the ancient could we could do it also . Imagine what one man in lifetime of maybe 300 years can do and achieve in fields that improve life like medicine , science etc...

I believe it when I see it.

After having read the whole thing:

A) I think the moral reason against this tech is bs. Everyone above 25 wants to be younger again. There is no exception so there will also be a market. We are also going to have to kill some people, but that is a secondary problem.

B) I can't judge if this is possible or not, I would love to learn and will follow you.

Overall I found your article a bit fluffy and sales- like. I don't need to be sold, obviously I want tech that keeps me young. I am almost 40 and my body and brain sucks compared to 20 years ago. I wish I could have the 19 year old body of mine back. I could learn much faster, see better, react faster, play computer games, lose weight, recover better and fuck 7h in a row and cum on the spot. All these things don't quite work this way any more.

As you can see no selling required. I look forward to learn from you in future articles.

If human population growth was net negative on resource utilization we wouldn't have population growth concurrent with more people rising out of poverty in the last 50 years than in all of human history.
Malthusian fallacy is no reason to not aim for human longevity. We need a better understanding of Xenohormesis to make it happen.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2504011/pdf/nihms60403.pdf

i have been  thinking about this subject for quite some time. most of the literature that i find is still focused on the anti and the breakdown as we age. i find endless studies on senescence and decay. with stem cells i thought that there would be a change in understanding that would lead us to the necessary shift to begin looking at what makes things grow, rather than what makes things die. i haven't seen much yet. mainly i see dithering about ethics of a small subset of the science. i see almost no discussion of the ethics of allowing all of our best and brightest, and friends and loved ones to continue to drop dead all around us. some of what you've discussed here i find refreshing, and i would like to thank you. we need more like you if we are ever to climb from this pit. we do still have many distractions. such as the death worshiping religionists who believe we are supposed to die. we also have the scarcity mongers who have trouble with the idea that if we can cure aging, surely we can come up with a way to make extra food and energy. i think buckminster fuller was instrumental in making those concerns irrelevant, provided we apply ourselves to the solutions. with extra life and a bolstered capacity for wisdom freed from decrepitude, we should find that many of our seemingly insurmountable problems quickly become a thing of the past. again i thank you, please continue your welcome inquirys into this, what i believe to be our most pressing challenge as sapient beings. one final thing, i have found very interesting the information of dave asprey and his bulletproofexec.com and many of the people connected with him. specifically the information he has gathered on cholesterol. i find his podcasts very illuminating. make of it what you will. thank you.

Thank you for your serious and vigorous research and development into the biggest "Omg...of course!" subjects in existence.  I have always felt uneasy with aging, I know that it sounds trite, but hear me out.  I believe that we inherently feel strange about things that aren't quite right. 

Whether the feelings are physiological in nature like a knee that isn't moving the same and gets worse with time or hanging out with the wrong people who you know are not helping you enrich your life and experiences. Or a relationship that deep down inside you know is keeping you from true love but is just comfortable.

 Aging is this nagging uneasiness that I feel is remnants of a much longer lifespan that our bodies know is a possibility.  We wouldn't yearn so deeply for it if it couldn't happen.  We are amazing perfect machines and we have a frontal lobe for a reason.  Problem solving our way back to the original lifetime warranty blueprint.  

A utopia in which births would be a very special occasion and done with purpose instead of mistakes and without education.  Imagine the possibilities of having mastered many disciplines and the awe in watching the ebb and flow of humanity and history.  There is this fear of death that lives inside of us that could vanish and this invisible monster chasing us would be gone.  No one knows what that feels like but I can imagine that it would be akin to realizing that you get to be alone with the person you are enamored with for a whole night or that you don't have to work for 3 weeks with pay....just relief exponentially extended. 

P.S. Sorry for the long windedness

I think "we" are going to be  **very** surprised  in just the coming few years by the ramifications of understanding exactly what consciousness is and how "it" ("I") integrate and interact with Existence (Mass and Energy).  

Almost a *side-benefit* to this understanding will be "the abolition of aging", possibly with hardly *any* technological interdiction at all.

I'm sure David addresses this in his book (sorry, I haven't read it yet ;-) but our primary work toward this goal (I would call it "fulfilling our purpose") is philosophical/psychological.

I just wonder what would happen to our personalities if we would live very long times.

Like if I would live 900 years for example, I would forget pretty much the first 700, so then my personality would change essentially after 200 years. So in some sense we would 'die', as our personality changes, our memories go away.

How is this different than biological death?

even the universe is not eternal, but we have to live happily ever after
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wellcome my art
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Very interesting! I'm assuming you mean age related decline and not aging in general. Am I right?

The possibility of humans living forever, or at least for many centuries, is something my brother and I have been discussing for a couple of decades now. We're both all for it. And, he actually did something about making it happen, by devoting the past ten years to getting his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, with a specialization in longevity studies. He just got the Ph.D. last year, and is now working on starting his own anti-aging biotech company. He tells me there is no reason why humans shouldn't be able to live for centuries, it's just a matter of figuring out how to apply what science knows about longevity to the human body and mind. He believes it will happen in our lifetimes, and we will be able to take advantage of it. I'm counting on him to rejuvenate me, himself, and anyone else we know who wants it. As a proud big sister, I fully expect him to change the world. :)

I just shot him a text to ask if he's heard of you. I'll post back when he responds. He's pretty familiar with all the big names in the field.

Do you see our ability to produce food keeping pace with the enormous surge in human population that this breakthrough would cause? 

Also, this breakthrough would be another cause to develop the ability to colonize our solar system and beyond.

I don't see these positions as arguments against rejuvenation, simply things to consider.  I really can't see a moral argument against rejuvenation.

Could I downvote this, I would.... no on second thought I wouldn't. But the whole "collective grasp" thing really got me triggered. Individuals think, not groups.

Reminds me of Nick Bostrom's [fable of the dragon-tyrant](http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html).

You should reassure people you're the real David W. Wood by posting a link to this on your [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dw2).

Welcome to Steem!