Immortalist

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She even takes to performing her grandmother's act, the Jaws of Life, in which she hangs from a rope by her teeth, calling herself "The Immortalist."

Among specific topics are bringing the arts and design into the discussion of transhumanism, intelligent information filters and enhanced reality, immortalist fictions and strategies, the open society and its media, and progress and relinquishment.

(9) In this thinking, a highest value undergoes devaluation, "life" as humanity's limitless extension forward in time; thought lets immortalist assumptions go and reorients toward the humility of a species experiencing a non-Pauline kenosis, a Nietzschean "going under." Bringing extinction to thought, climate change empties from thought any appearance of humanity as temporally omnipotent, as moving toward a future that enacts a beginning ripe with a future, ad infinitum.

Ben Best has been a pharmacist, computer programmer, university instructor, company president, and most importantly an immortalist who has dedicated his life to identifying proven methods to extend the healthy human life span.

Kurzweil's vision, he writes, "is the occultist worldview of Myers and Lunacharsky"--two of the drivers behind the British and Soviet immortalist projects--"derived from Theosophy and ultimately from ancient Gnosticism, restated in the materialist terms of twenty-first century computer theory."

24-25) echoes the immortalist in "The Two Voices": "'More life and fuller, that I want'" (l.

These optimists have spawned a movement of like-minded life extension enthusiasts who call themselves immortalists. The immortalist community is growing steadily as anti-aging breakthroughs and commentary from Aubrey de Grey and other leaders makes headlines in the mainstream press.

In one play, aptly named The Immortalist, he played a gay Arab houseboy.