“Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable.” ~ David Sinclair About the Authorsĭavid Sinclair, Ph.D., AO, is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. Importantly, the societal impacts that coincide with an aging population is also discussed. So whilst the book is called Lifespan, it could quite easily have also been called Health-span since it discusses in much detail the science behind living longer, but in a disease-free state. As an acclaimed researcher at Harvard Medical School and one of TIME’s most influential people, David’s book will provide you with a current status that we’re at with understanding lifespan and health-span in humans. Sinclair’s first novel which challenges the seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. If you’d like to join us in making the world’s greatest nonfiction books accessible to everyone, fill in this form. Hats off to Eleanor Sheekey from The University of Cambridge for contributing this text shot. If you don’t already have the book, order the book or get the audiobook for free to learn the juicy details. Has Lifespan been gathering dust on your bookshelf? Instead, pick up the key ideas now. He called this principle of always putting consciousness first “the Formula of Humanity,” and it kind of explains. Kant argued that the most fundamental moral duty is the preservation and growth of consciousness, both in ourselves and in others. Each individual action may not matter in the grand scheme of things, but the preservation and promotion of rational consciousness overall matters more than anything. In another thousand, we could easily be among the stars, reshap ing the planets and space/time itself.
In a thousand years, we went from twiddling sticks in a small cave to designing entire digital realms connecting the minds of billions. Consciousness is able to take a problem, a system of a certain amount of complexity, and conceive and generate greater complexity. They’re just there.īut consciousness-consciousness can reorganize the universe, and that reorganization can add upon itself exponentially. They don’t conceive of values, systems, or organizations. Without intelligence, and the freedom to exercise that intelligence, we might as well all be a bunch of rocks. Kant believed that without rationality, the universe would be a waste, in vain, and without purpose. The only importance is the thing that decides importance.33Īnd this ability to choose meaning, to imagine importance, to invent purpose, is the only force in the known universe that can propagate itself, that can spread its intelligence and generate greater and greater levels of organization throughout the cosmos.
The only true meaning in existence is the ability to form meaning. Therefore, Kant cleverly deduced that, logically, the supreme value in the universe is the thing that conceives of value itself. And for all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. We are the only ones who can direct our own fate. In the known cosmos, we are the only sources of ingenuity and creativity. This, to him, was special, exceedingly special-a miracle, almost-because for everything in the infinite span of existence, we are the only thing (that we know of) that can actually direct existence. To Kant, the only thing that distinguishes us from the rest of the matter in the universe is our ability to reason-we’re able to take the world around us and, through reasoning and will, improve upon it. In all the universe, there is only one thing that, from what we can tell, is completely scarce and unique: consciousness. So, he set out to use his big-biceped Thinking Brain to figure out what value without hope would look like. He refused to believe that we are forever cursed to conjure stories to give our lives an arbitrary sense of meaning. He refused to believe that there was no inherent value in existence. And like everyone who becomes aware of this cruel cosmic game, he despaired. Tags: Motivational & Inspirational, Success, Personal Growth, Happiness, Self-HelpĮarly in his life, Kant understood the Whac-A-Mole game of maintaining hope in the face of the Uncomfortable Truth.
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