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Digital immortality - from science fiction to potential internet reality [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2023 The development of technology and biotechnologies in the modern society has seemingly made immortality more approachable to humanity than ever before; medicine is advancing, life is getting longer, anti-ageing techniques are becoming more common,
Zlatović Anja
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The current, utilitarian debate on the relation between euthanasia and happiness focusses primarily on the subject of dying patients. Where some utilitarians stress how euthanasia may relieve suffering in the process of dying, others emphasize the ...
Donovan van der Haak
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Mechanism of immortalization [PDF]
AGE, 1999 Model systems implementing various approaches to immortalize cells have led toward further understanding of replicative senescence and carcinogenesis. Human diploid cells have a limited life span, termed replicative senescence. Because cells are terminally growth arrested during replicative senescence, it has been suggested that it acts as a tumor ...
K, Hubbard, H L, Ozer
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Comparative Comparison of Immortality in Sadra'i Wisdom and Allameh Tabatabai's Thought [PDF]
تاریخ فلسفه اسلامی, 2022 The subject of the article is a comparative comparison of immortality in Sadra'i wisdom and Allameh Tabatabai's thought. Mulla Sadra, based on the rule of ‘corporeal in its origination and spiritual [or incorporeal] in its survival’ (jismaniyyat al ...
hamedeh Rastaei, Kobra Najafian
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, 1915 THANATOPHOBIA AND IMMORTALITY Thanatophobia and Immortality (26) (-
Hall, Granville Stanley
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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]
, 2015 Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Heflick, Nathan A, Wisman, Arnaud
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, 2016 Activation of oncogenic signaling paradoxically results in the permanent withdrawal from cell cycle and induction of senescence (oncogene-induced senescence (OIS)). OIS is a fail-safe mechanism used by the cells to prevent uncontrolled tumor growth, and, as such, it is considered as the first barrier against cancer.
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, 2022 In this paper, I argue that none of Socrates’ four arguments for the immortality of the soul can prove it to be immortal. All that the four arguments amount to is an inference to the best explanation. However, this inference to Socrates’ best explanation
Sena, Wesley
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000 The concept of the force of natural selection was developed to explain the evolution of ageing. After ageing, however, comes a period in which mortality rates plateau and some individual organisms could, in theory, live forever. This late–life immortality has no presently agreed upon explanation. Two main theories have been offered.
Rose, Michael R, Mueller, Laurence D
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