is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su
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To others or will be reserved for themselves. to others or will be reserved for themselves. it is such an important for themselves. it is such an important question. - for themselves. it is such an important question. if- for themselves. it is such an important question. if they i for themselves. it is such an i important question. if they are donating large sums of money that donate forward basic research for the benefit of all, that should certainly be welcomed but one of the real concerns about life extension that it will be the privilege of a rich elite and that would have disastrous consequences. aha, have disastrous consequences. a philosopher i believe you know, john davis, he wrote a book in which he said imagine a world in which the wealthy few live on in endless youth, and elite of the immortals. they would behave like branches watching a herd of cattle, the likes of you and me, whose members change with the years while they remain in control. that is dystopian they rema