From: Philip Goetz (philgoetz@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2006 - 08:02:11 MST
On 3/21/06, John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:
> "Philip Goetz" <philgoetz@gmail.com> Wrote:
>
> > He doesn't mention that those gene alterations
> > merely slow down metabolism and produce weak,
> > lethargic worms that couldn't survive in nature
> > and probably do not experience whatever
> > constitutes happiness for a worm.
>
> That's not true for a mutation in the daf-2 gene, the animals were quite
> active they just lived a long time. Cynthia Kenyon wrote about it in Science
> and I found an article about it on the web:
How embarassing! This time it was me, not Kurzweil, being sloppy. :(
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