Engineers, Particularly Software Engineers, Have Long Supported SENS Rejuvenation Research

The SENS approach to the treatment of aging is explicitly engineering, in the sense that engineering is the application of science to produce useful technology in absence of full knowledge of the systems influenced. It is right there in the name: Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. In fact all medicine is engineering, as no-one yet has access to the full map of cellular biology that would allow for complete knowledge of how any particular therapy actually functions. SENS is merely a particularly obvious example, perhaps because of the great divide that exists in the aging research community. Firstly, there are those who think that far greater understanding of the progression of aging at the detail level is needed, and that any intervention should be a matter of slowing aging by changing the operation of metabolism. They believe that meaningful progress towards greater human life spans is still remote, and only small gains are possible in our lifetimes, if then. Secondly, on the other side of the divide, there are those who wish to use the known catalog of forms of cell and tissue damage that lie at the root of aging in order to bypass the need for full understand of how aging progresses, and to produce rejuvenation rather than merely a slowing of aging. If damage has no other contributing source than the normal operation of healthy metabolism, then let us just repair it and observe the results - that is how we find out what is relevant and what is not. Thi...
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