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If Abundance is the wonderful Future Possible, what are we going to need to have, be and do to get there? What follows are our initial explorations of a thesis that proposes that Abundance and Flow might just be flip sides of the same coin

Eating less helps you live longer, but eating less is hard. One line of experiment suggests that eating less of just one protein component, methionine, is sufficient to extend life span, perhaps as effectively as though less calories were being consumed. It’s an intriguing idea, though the research is fraught with contradictions, and to separate methionine from other protein components is not easy or cheap.

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Built in 1936, this machine was “the world’s first computer for solving [partial] differential equations,” which “for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics.” Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You “calculated” with plumbing.

“The idea was to work with sound and picture at the same time, in the same way. My dream was to squeeze sound and picture out of the same tube – to weave a cloth with warp as sound, woof as picture, and meaning the fabric itself.” – Barry Spinello

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To direct the core of the scientific method into the core of the human soul, and find a way to forever change what it means to be human.

The immune system of older people declines in reliability and efficiency with age, resulting in greater susceptibility to pathology as a consequence of inflammation, for example, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, autoreactivity and vaccine failure, as well as an increased vulnerability to infectious disease.

One question that I have seen repeatedly asked is: When did the transhuman era begin; indeed, has it begun or is it an event that is yet to occur?

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.