Intimations of Immortality

Intimations of immortality: clones, cryons and the law.

Immortality.

“Is death necessary?“, asked biologist G. R. Taylor and stated that in 1968 in the USA alone more than a thousand teams of scientists were working on the issue of growing old and the problem of death. Some people are frozen at their death. They want to be revived as soon as a cure for their disease or the aging process has been found. Most of humanity seems to have the desire to live forever. M...

Intimations of Infinity

The comments above (see below for who made them and when) represent one type of thinking about infinity. There are other types, as we will see, and they all create difficulties for students, philosophers and even mathematicians. The purpose of this article is to show how a particular theory about how people come to understand mathematics, APOS Theory, can be helpful in understanding the thinkin...

Intimations of Senility

Yet though with years my body downward trend As trees beneath their fruit in autumn bend. Spite of my snowy hair and icy veins My head a cheerful temper still retains. Blake paints a bearable picture of old age and it is necessary to recognise that while the ageing process inevitably brings change, in the absence of disease normal people should retain understanding and mobility and can expect t...

Intimations of a Creature Minireview

" It is impossible to say how the idea first entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture-"-Edgar Allan Poe, " The TellTale Heart " Strikingly different animals have more in common than meets the eye. Animal architecture is guided by many conserved regulators, among them homeobox genes that have related ...