Longevity Nation Conference - March 26-27, Bar-Ilan Unviersity, Israel

[Ilia Stambler]

Dear friends

I want to draw your attention to the conference:

Longevity Nation –

Enhancing research development and education for healthy longevity

March 26-27, 2023

Bar Ilan University, Nanotechnology Bldg 206, Ramat Gan, Israel

This conference will explore the interdisciplinary interrelations of science, technology and society in addressing the challenges of population aging. By bringing together leading voices in the longevity space and public figures, the Longevity Nation conference will strongly contribute to increasing the synergy of science, technology and aging society, and help advance ethical scientific and technological solutions for healthy longevity for the benefit of the entire society. Building on national and international strengths in this area, this conference will help build the supportive national longevity ecosystems and enhance international cooperation in the Longevity Field.

http://www.longevitynation.org/

The registration is at the link below (the attendance is free, but registration is required). The page also includes information for possible support for Vetek (Seniority) Association – the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life, Israel, the chief organizer of this conference. 

http://www.longevitynation.org/register-free-and-donate/

Looking forward to seeing you and jointly promoting research, development and education for healthy longevity!

(And thanks for spreading the word!)

Ilia Stambler, PhD

Chairman of the Vetek Association and of the organizing committee

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Ilia Stambler, PhD

Chairman and CSO. Vetek (Seniority) Association – The Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life (Israel) http://www.longevityisrael.org/

Board member. International Longevity Alliance http://www.longevityalliance.org/ https://www.longevityforall.org/ Board member. International Society on Aging and Disease http://www.isoad.org Fellow, Policy Director. Global Healthspan Policy Institute https://healthspanpolicy.org/

Fellow. Department of Science, Technology and Society, Bar-Ilan University, Israel https://www.sts-biu.org/

Author. Longevity History. A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century ; Longevity Promotion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives http://longevityhistory.com

 

Email: ilia.s...@gmail.com

Tel: 972-3-961-4296 / 0522-283-578

Skype: iliastam

Rishon Lezion. Israel

[Paul Werbos]

When I replied to the lifeboat foundation yahoo address you used, it bounced.

I DO have a deep interest in life extension science, but not the current wide public outreach.

 

1. From fear to hope in UN efforts

Many of us have strongly supported Jerry Glenn's efforts to support Guterres in trying to 

support a dramatic increase in effectiveness through the UN to protect the human species as a whole from "existential threats" -- like the dramatic new information from more advanced science about the real risks of "climate extinction" and new developments in the internet/AGI/IOT system.

The UN needs a much better flow of information about future possibilities and choices, and many of us will do all we can to create a new and better expanded flow. 

But several of you once responded: "These are all about FEARS. We need HOPE. Without HOPE, we will all die anyway." Some communications workers even go to the opposite extreme, advocating a kind of "positive thinking" which reminds me of the old Disney cartoon of kangaroos burying their heads in the sand to avoid SEEING the tiger about to eat them.  

I listened and agreed strongly with those of you who made that point to me. 

I agreed for many reasons. 

First, I spent about half my serious life in science to understanding brains and replicating brain-like intelligence. That was a GREAT background in understanding how NETWORKS can be organized in a way which actually make survival and growth possible,for systems at any level,

from new AGI hardware to societies and more. INTEGRATION is such a central function that we all need to understand and practice it better -- WHICH IS A CORE MISSION OF THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT. . (Karl Deutsch, my Harvard PhD advisor, started to become famous in inernational poliics when he wrote a book about the connection frm neural networks to governance.

https://archive.org/details/nervesofgovernme0000deut . He hired me to make the math real.) 

I attach the chapter I drafted for Come Carpentier, for his new book on consciousness from the INdia Foundation, which gives an overview of that new understanding.

As PART of that effort, many decades ago, I read papers like Olds' work in neuroscience, where they reported that healthy, effective mammals have a MIX of hope and fear, the very foundation of their brains and minds. Animals thrive who devote more brain space to hope than to fear. 

HOWEVER, WE DO ALSO NEED AN IMMUNE SYSTEM to stay alive. (As I get older, and learn how complicated it is to stay healthy, I now know aspects of THAT science even beyond what Lifeboat Foundation has kept up with.) The fears, constraints and inhibitions are a necessary PART of our system. When I view humanity through the "window" of what we learn from Carl Jung, I tell myself: "I WILL respect and channel the spirit of Loki... but only as a dog on a very strong leash." Fears, and even some barking...

BUT OUR SURVIVAL REQUIRES BETTER USE OF THE BRAIN, not just the immune system on a leash. We, the futurists and integrators of this species, need to focus most of our energy on the positive bigger goals, and not just short term values like immediate pleasures and small threats.

We need to find ways to work together more, even when they do not fit into the "immune system" protection function of the Security Council. 

This is why in MY efforts I always attach the list of SEVEN challenges attached, as explained in the final section of my paper for Bangalore. Our species is like a little fish in a gigantic aquarium.

Those of us who are truly attuned to the whole species and to life on earth will be driven by three great, incessant inner biological imperatives -- to survive, to grow, and to better understand what we face in the larger aquarium as a whole. Will it eat us? Does it house family which can help us (and vice-versa)? Can we find out?

2. New Information from Beyond Our Solar System

JUST YESTERDAY, the Philosophical society of Washington and the Cosmos Club (of which Jerry is a member) led a major review of what NASA is learning on challenge number seven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-NhhWE2gu4

I did not attend in person, but I bcc two friends who did and who appear in the video. 

I was impressed by the citation to a new paper in Nature which suggests they saw convincing evidence of six "technosignatures" within 1,000 light years or so. Within months, we can expect new information from NASA enlarging these new findings, based IN PART on the new Webb telescope. I will need to study all that carefully, as best I can in coming months (under reduced internet for awhile). 

I BCC six  other scientists  who MIGHT POSSIBLY be in a position to start the first phase of IMPLEMENTING  a new quantum AGI technology (QAGI) which would give us orders of magnitude better resolution in seeing what these NASA programs report, impressive as it now is. IN ADDITION to the four big networks used already by the Breakthrough institute, NASA may now be in a position to fund new work on seeing technosignatures better than anyone can at present. 

I am bcc'ing the patent attorney who contacted me about converting my provisional patent on QAGI to a normal patent pending, which he promises will be filed by the deadline tomorrow. 

I am hoping that Jerry will get support for his new workshop on AGI where we can get more concrete about this technology, how it fits our older technologies, and what the risks and opportunities are. I even sent two of you a more explicit workplan, beyond what was in the provisional, on the first stage of the work on the new type of quantum device which can enable all of these new capabilities, and more. 

By the way, I also bcc a world leader in astrobiology, who knows far more about xenobiology than anyone did in the PSW video. Maybe the new thrust might benefit from him as well?

Best of luck to us all. We all need it a lot. And you all are crucial nodes in the network of survival.