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The Miraculous Disaster of Immortality

Royal Institution of Great Britain
Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, UK
19 March 2010 - 7pm-8.30pm

A discussion introduced by Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and coeditor of The Physiology of Cognitive Processes (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA) and The Oxford Companion to the Body (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).

Since the early 19th century, life expectancy in the developed world has been increasing by six hours or more a day. The trend is extraordinarily regular, despite the fact that very different factors have contributed across the decades. Most babies born today are likely to live more than 100 years. Is there is an absolute limit to the human lifespan? Might understanding why we age and die enable us to achieve immortality? What kind of life would eternal life be?

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