Did someone prove mice have souls that go to heaven or hell while I wasn't looking?
For all the limits of research that only works in mice and doesn't generalise to humans (I'm *not* going to plan with the assumption of radical longevity) it's not quite as bad as taking everythin on faith.
(Context: I am firmly an atheist, but I also disapprove of the people who want to live forever. I think that's selfish and childish. People should get to grips with the reality of their mortality and make peace with that.)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If funerals were in general the only way progress happened, every genocide would cause scientific/technological/economic revolutions.
Recessions are sufficient to clear bad leadership in the private sector; elections in democratic governments.
What does this have to do with a soul? The comment was about people treating life extension as a religion based on faith more than evidence.
Nothing to do with the soul, or heaven, or anything else.
Radical life extension has been demonstrated… in mice.
If you don't like my chosen examples, take any other religious statement and demonstrate it in a mouse. Have Anubis weigh their heart against a feather, pay Charon to cross the Styx, whatever.
Point isn't the specific it's compared against, it's the entire set that longevity definitely isn't in, because unlike those things it has been demonstrated (in mice).
Yep, here is the documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3804810/