>>15515333>that rebuilding the system (meaning the organism) from blueprints every few decades is much more practical than infinitely patching up one running instance of the organism.EXACTLY
and that is why we evolved that way, it evolved first, and once we had regeneration every few years through reproduction, there was no need to evolve a proper regenerative thing
But my point here is that fixing the millions of little things, and doing that forever, is POSSIBLE, it's incredibly unlikely to naturally evolve, and has never done so on our planet, but if we ever got the level of genetic mastery to understand the exact effect of all things biological, then we could absolutely engineer humans and other animals that don't age
of course it's a huge undertaking, because as I suspect you understand, doing so would mean you need to fix down to a genetic level every single health problem and flaw
but it's possible, natural evolution DID do exactly that, they fixed millions of health problems, making us in practice imortal... except only during the period from birth to average age of reproduction
that's why young people are very health, and the reason why we begin to "age" after around 25-30, "age" isn't a process, it's just natural evolution having stopped giving a fuck, and all the systems in your body failing one by one because there are no instructions to keep them going past 30, or 50, or 80, which is also the reason health problems multiply and get worse and worse with age
so to achieve imortality, you would need to fix all of them, including the ones you get at 170 that we are not aware of yet, but it is completely doable and possible, that is my point
