Where can the key to living forever be found?

I am loathe to put this question under Religion. It's a spiritual question. And when it comes to answering spiritual questions, it's clear that the majority of religions don't have the ability to provide satisfying answers that are separate of their...

traditions and bias.

Although I do believe that the answer to this question exists.
Evidence seems to point to the fact that humans are capable of living for much more than just 80 years - in our lifetimes, our total brain capacity is heavily underused, almost wasted.
And the way cells can replicate and heal themselves to an indefinite degee, but stop for reasons not fully understood also points to humans having the potential to live forever.

Will science give us everlasting life?
Or does the answer come from another source? What basis does this source have?
Can living forever be attained at all?

Please let me know what you think. This question is important to me and to many others.

We don't underuse our brains. The stats you hear about we only use 10% of our brains etcetera are simply counting the percentage of neurons that are firing. If 100% of our neurons were firing, we'd be in a constant state of seizure.

The reason cells stop reproducing is twofold: First, mutations gradually reduce the cells' ability to reproduce accurately, causing cancers and unviable cells. Second, DNA has a long string of useless bases at the end of each chromosome called the 'telomere'. Every time a cell copies itself and divides, that telomere gets a little bit shorter. Eventually, you run out of telomere, and divisions start chewing up useful DNA, at which point your cells stop functioning properly. This puts an upper-limit on how long a creature can conceivably live - and is the reason behind some of the problems that have been encountered with cloning. Only the process that creates zygoes (sperm and eggs) is able to add to the end of the telomere.

I think it's possible - maybe even inevitable - that in time, we will develop technologies to get around this - either with cell repair and gene therapies (perhaps we could make all cells able to extend their own telomere) - or by wholesale duplicating of human consciousness into artificial bodies or machines. But I think it's a long way away - probably none of us alive today will live to see it.

Also, FWIW, I think this is clearly a science question, not a 'spiritual' one.

I dout we will ever live for ever. Scince has extended our lives, but never live forever. Not sure I would want to anyway.

Extending iving in the body you have now, is all up to science and the particular techniques that are used. Science is limited to what is available NOW. Living forever is really a spiritual question. There are many Cultivation Ways that believe once the physical body dies, the 'energy force', 'spirit', or whatever it is called in the Spiritual Practice chosen, moves on either to another physical form, or passes on to other dimensions, or what is believed. Whether these are true or not, can not be proven through science. and there are many that say they 'know' the answer. They can't possibly until they experience it for themselves. This is a question that will haunt you until the day you die if you allow it to. My advice to you is that you choose a Cultivation Way like Falun Dafa etc, and live with honest, logical beliefs, and not one that puts all their attention on heresay, blind faith and self-proclaimed prophets. Feeling some sort of inner peace with your question should be your goal.

Christians (like me) believe that living forever is attained by believing in God and Jesus Christ the Savior. The definition is a little different from the conventional one though

As for the conventional definition (living forever physically, on Earth) I do not think its possible, no. Humanity is imperfect, we cant even create temperatures that are perfectly at absolute zero (although we have come pretty close)

*** Will science give us everlasting life?

We are at the cusp of a fundamental revolution in biotech fueled by a conjunction of nanotech, a fundamental understanding of biology at the molecular level, and processing power that enables simulations where very time consuming trial and error were previously our only tool. These will come together within 15 years or less to enable the stopping of the aging process. Eventually, we'll learn how to reverse aging and our bodies will be filled with nanobots that fight off all disease and instantly repair us after accidents as well.

This isn't immortality, since given enough time, the odds will catch up with us and we'll be killed in an accident even the nanobots can't repair. But it may very well allow most of us reading this to live for hundreds of years.

Well, I disagree...I think most people do use only 10% of their brains...This doesn't come from some stat in a book...it's from working with general public...there are days I think humans use even less than that 10%.

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***All of humanity will SURELY die for we were ALL conceived in sin [Psalm 51:5] and the ...the wages of sin is DEATH... [Romans 6:23].

Avim

Science is limited to what is available NOW.

No, that's technology. Science is about figuring out what new things we can learn and do.

As for the conventional definition (living forever physically, on Earth) I do not think its possible, no. Humanity is imperfect, we cant even create temperatures that are perfectly at absolute zero (although we have come pretty close)

What on earth does that have to do with living forever? Sure, it may not literally be 'forever' (we have the heat death of the universe to worry about), but close enough.

Took the words right out of my mouth arachid.

It is indeed a science question, not a spiritual. It's believed that humans are pre- programed to die. It' been proven a certian light can actually make the brain think it's 10 years younger. While that may not last forever(health problems, etc), believe me, you have plenty of people out there looking for immortality. So far all we have are ways to prolong life.

read one of the bible's most important scriptures -- JOHN 3:16 -- actually the key to EVERYTHING about life is simple -- just pick up a bible sometime --