We interrupt this program for a public service announcement…

Provocative interview with Cambridge geneticist Aubrey de Grey (thanks to GeekPress for the link) in which he basically says that we will overcome the process of aging.

“…if you’re asking whether we will no longer suffer a progressive rise with age in our likelihood of death…, I’d say yes, we won’t.”

Sound like a good idea? Leon Kass addresses this issue in Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls.

A flourishing human life is not a life lived with an ageless body or untroubled soul, but rather a life lived in rhythmed time, mindful of time’s limits, appreciative of each season and filled first of all with those intimate human relations that are ours only because we are born, age, replace ourselves, decline, and die—and know it. It is a life of aspiration, made possible by and born of experienced lack, of the disproportion between the transcendent longings of the soul and the limited capacities of our bodies and minds. It is a life that stretches towards some fulfillment to which our natural human soul has been oriented, and, unless we extirpate the source, will always be oriented.

OK, now back to talking about Arnold…