Aging Matters
This time each year, I take the liberty of posting something more speculative and personal. In this essay, I propose that everything we consider the “scientific world-view” is only half the story, and that science must expand its foundations if it aspires to be a complete account of reality. A reductionist approach to science … Read more
In 1999, I met Cynthia Kenyon for the first time, and she told me her one-line proof that aging is an evolved trait. Lifespans in nature range from hours to thousands of years. This shows that natural selection is not constrained, but can implement aging on whatever time scale is appropriate. A few years ago, … Read more
Were I, like Adam, choiced by evil snake That fruit of knowledge I might free partake Or, spurning insight, might forever be, And dwell in vast, obscure eternity… By two such options I’d be sorely torn— ’Twas not for blind submission I was born. Infinity sans knowledge is no prize, While light that fades to … Read more