The following is a conversation with Davidson Claire.

He's a professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard

and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging

at Harvard Medical School.

He's the author of the book, Life Span and Co-Founder of several biotech companies.

He works on turning age into an engineering problem and solving it,

driven by a vision of a world where billions of people can live much longer

and much healthier lives.

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As a side note, let me say that longevity research challenges us to think

how science and engineering will change society.

Imagine if you can live 100,000 years, even under control conditions,

like in a spaceship, say, then suddenly a trip to office entari

that is 4.37 light years away takes a single human lifespan.

And on the psychological, maybe even philosophical level,

as the horizons of death drift farther into the distance,

how will our search for meaning change?

Does meaning require death or does it merely require struggle?

Reprogramming our biology will require us to delve deeper

into understanding the human mind and the robot mind.

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