How long can we live?

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@write4u

Theoretically we should be able to live forever as long as our bodies can perform mitosis.

What’s this “Theoretically” thing?

@write4u

But relative to humans trees are very simple organisms and only very simple organisms can withstand the ravages of time.

“Relative to humans”

This is storytelling.

Seriously, what organism withstands the ravages of time?

Without the storytelling and the misdirection of anthropomorphizing.

Nothing can step outside the ravages of time, except our imagination and the stories it concocts.

It does Physical Reality a disservice. Write have you had a chance to check out Ed Yong’s, An Immense World? It really brings our senses back down to Earth,

An Immense World, by Ed Yong - Hidden realms around us

Heck I was going to share one of his talks, this one is an interview with Sean Carroll, an excellent science communicator in his own right. Mindscape 201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World [Mindscape 201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World] Sean Carroll - Jun 20, 2022 #philosophy #ideas #culture All of us construct models of the world, and update them on the basis of evidence brought to us by our senses. Scientists try to be more rigorous about it, but we all do it. It…