2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal

TIME magazine featured “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal” back in 2011. This controversial article about Ray Kurzweil’s theory about artificial intelligence 🤖 and technological singularity.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with what technological singularity actually means, then the definition according to Wikipedia states:

The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization.

According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a “runaway reaction” of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an “explosion” in intelligence, and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence.

To cut a long story short, Kurzweil and other leading scientists 👨🏻‍🔬 believe that computers 💻 and humans 🏃 will largely merge by 2045 creating a symbiosis between man and machine, which will eventually lead to immorality.

But before we all become cyborgs 🤖, which are some of the technologies that allow us to better understand the ageing process.👵🏼

Epigenetics 🧬

Unlike the outdated and conventional method of measuring age with time, epigenetic ageing also known as biological age can be accelerated and reversed.

Epigenetic ageing and DNA methylation 🧬 has been argued to be related to all mortality in later life, however, it is thought not to be a cause of ageing but a marker that can be used to judge accelerated ageing.

By utilising this important marker, it may be possible to predict many disease 🏥 and lifestyle conditions before they come to pass. With the fundamental aim of decelerating the ageing process and preventing these ailments from occurring in the first place.

Chronological age Vs Biological age.

The vast majority of us will be completely unaware that we actually have two ages:

Chronological age refers the exact number of years you have been alive and as predictable as night follows day, your date of birth and age cannot be altered.

While biological age is a true reflection of how your cells are ageing and how they have been affected by exogenous and endogenous stressors such as your diet 🥗, exercise 🏋🏼, lifestyle, and environment 🌎, which will affect your epigenetics.

To date there are 2992 scientific publications on biological age and epigenetics, so it is very well characterised. Biological age is a very well-defined scientific term. It is not a loosely defined marketing term.

Muhdo Health understands that we all come with a set of unique genetic predispositions, but our lifestyle & environments will affect those same genetic traits 🧬, and either dilute or accentuated them through Epigenetics.