Dan Lynch Has Died (SRI, Arpanet, Internet)
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A Brief History of the Internet https://arxiv.org/html/cs/9901011
Daniel C. Lynch interview https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271712...
2019 Internet Hall of Fame: Dan Lynch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowVk_kW8dQ
The Past and Future History of the INTERNET https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/253671.253741
The "spiritual" perspective has legs with respect to life-extension, as well, though there are at least two distinct scientific definitions of spirituality, one based on mindfulness and one based on its exact opposite, mind-wandering resting.
Both strategies (based on distinctly different meditation practices) have research suggesting that lifespan can be extended by their approach.
e.g.
For mindfulness:
Molecules of Silence: Effects of Meditation on Gene Expression and Epigenetics https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
vs
For the "other white meat":
Transcriptomics of Long-Term Meditation Practice: Evidence for Prevention or Reversal of Stress Effects Harmful to Health https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/218
See also:
On the Neurobiology of Meditation: Comparison of Three Organizing Strategies to Investigate Brain Patterns during Meditation Practice https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/56/12/712
For how distinctly different types of meditation have different effects on nervous system and body.
A hint: the words used to teach meditation can lead to radically different measurable physiological outcomes depending on the context in which those words are spoken and the persistence of those effects is also very dependent on the context in which instructions are given, often leading to exactly the opposite effect on certain physiological measures:
Compare Reduced functional connectivity between cortical sources in five meditation traditions detected with lagged coherence using EEG tomography https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...
with figure 3 of Enhanced EEG alpha time-domain phase synchrony during Transcendental Meditation: Implications for cortical integration theory
https://www.brainresearchinstitute.org/research/totalbrain/T...
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S01651684050021...
You can't get more distinct than "reduced" vs 100% coherence across all leads simultaneously.
And thereby hangs the tale for explaining how and why different mental practices have different long-term, persistent changes in brain activity in favor of longevity: reduced EEG coherence => reduced resting; 100% implies that the brain is only resting; the longer you practice some forms of meditation, the less restful the brain becomes.
Always mindful vs always resting or moving back into resting mode asap given the chance.
Imagine what would happen if we doubled or tripled that number.
How many more companies founded, inventions created, or if you care about art, new creations never imagined.
We really MUST do better, it is in all our best interests.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2090%3A10...
A better link would have been https://www.oed.com/dictionary/threescore_adj?tl=true#:~:tex....
You can also look at other samples like the Founding Fathers of the US. Most lived past 70, and some even lived beyond 90. The only people who died before 60 were Alexander Hamilton, killed in a duel and John Hancock, died of gout - which can be caused by things including excessive drinking. There was indeed a very low life expectancy in the past, but it was 100% due to infant mortality. If one child dies in infancy, and the other lives to 80, then you have a life expectancy at birth of 40.
That the Bible itself also noted this, is extremely interesting. Not even from a religious perspective, but from a historic one. It's really interesting to think about. As an adult today, you have a similar life expectancy to an (upper class) adult from thousands of years ago. There are many implications that one can apply to modern life. For instance it's safe to say that their dietary/lifestyle choices are very much worth considering, if not emulating.
2. What makes you think you know how you'll feel in 50 years? You cannot possibly predict that.
Which reminds me, that middle-age is actually 38. I'm halfway done with my life.
Yikes!
We are here because of those before us. Those after us will be there because of us. Good stuff.
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He will be missed.