The Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE) is organizing an online demonstration to support life extension technologies and awareness.
The Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE) is organizing an online demonstration to support life extension technologies and awareness. The event is taking place from 2pm to 8pm UTC, Universal Coordinated Time, on March 21st 2015, in a live Google Hangout broadcast from locations around the world.
Eric Schulke, Founder of MILE, says, “Our lives are in our hands, and we must act with urgency. The Movement for Indefinite Life Extension is raising awareness about bio-sciences and technologies that are working toward eradicating the causes and diseases of aging. We are making this an expedited effort, and ask people to join us.”
The event has already garnered the support of many. Over 60 people have signed up, and several hundred have joined the audience to witness this awareness-generating event.
Gennady Stolyarov II, Delegate for MILE, adds, “Human beings get the rare chance to experience life, but the bodies we get to live in, eventually malfunction. Let’s fix our bodies. We can do that with the opportunities available to the world today as long as the people and organizations who are working toward indefinite life extension have worldwide support.”
From 2PM to 5PM UTC is a mixed line-up of people showing their support for indefinite life spans: Mixed Line-Up. It includes group demonstrations, singing, speeches, project endorsements, book plugs, interviews and other messages.
From 5PM to 8PM UTC is an all online line-up of people showing their support for indefinite life spans: All Online Line-Up. It includes individuals and small groups of people expressing why they support life extension, with some delivering short statements, and others holding up signs of encouragement.
There are also live groups coming together to demonstrate and show support in: Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. Those interested in attending are invited to vote in the poll by following the link for their nearest live demonstration. Administrators of the event receive lists of people who voted for each option from the polls and will contact everybody with further information.
About MILE: The Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE) is a group with a mission to help put people-power and resources behind the projects and organizations working directly and indirectly toward indefinite life extension. For more information, visit: MILE here.
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March 30, 2015 at 11:38 am
There is much I can fathom about the trans/ desire-to-action movement, community in all its aspirations—but the self’s inability to comprehend the certainty of its own annihilation is just beyond me (and I use the notion of ‘self’ in an interactional and not a metaphysical sense). There is, within the self, the desire to never end and it certainly motivates (in part) the study of how our flesh fails by disease and aging and thereby produce organic and inorganic means to extend life as long as possible.
And so, just do it. Get busy solving the problems and start retrofitting.
An earlier member of the trans community wrote about the transvaluation of all values. Yes Nietsche. That trans movement has never started, an ethical upending that embeds morality in life rather than an “elsewhere” of unattainable, errantly encoded reference works. He would call that metaphysics and he would equate that with a world of self-interested, blind, voracious bloodlust.
I see in the desire to extend the life of the self as long as possible a value incompatible with the current movement because it has not rid itself of the blind enthusiasm for the inestimable value of my-self, a notion of selfhood that clearly has not thrown off the legacy of selves being the centers of value…and who would want to extend the history of the sorts of institutions, associations and bloodlust of a populace who have not undergone a transvaluation of values?
Cure disease, design things to make aging joyful so that we end happily working and playing, feeling healthy and young instead of rickety and old. But let’s lose the desire to extend life indefinitely and let’s all eventually come to an end.