Human Life and Immortality

It is impossible to retrace the steps in the development of human awareness about lifetimes and, consequently, the end of life from the primordial times of Homo sapiens.

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Filipe Duarte Santos

TIME , PROGR ESS, GROWTH AND TECHNOLOGY How Humans and the Earth are Responding

THE FRONTIERS COLLECTION Series Editors Avshalom C. Elitzur, Iyar, Israel Institute of Advanced Research, Rehovot, Israel Zeeya Merali, Foundational Questions Institute, Decatur, GA, USA Thanu Padmanabhan, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India Maximilian Schlosshauer, Department of Physics, University of Portland, Portland, OR, USA Mark P. Silverman, Department of Physics, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA Jack A. Tuszynski, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Rüdiger Vaas, Redaktion Astronomie, Physik, bild der wissenschaft, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

The books in this collection are devoted to challenging and open problems at the forefront of modern science and scholarship, including related philosophical debates. In contrast to typical research monographs, however, they strive to present their topics in a manner accessible also to scientifically literate non-specialists wishing to gain insight into the deeper implications and fascinating questions involved. Taken as a whole, the series reflects the need for a fundamental and interdisciplinary approach to modern science and research. Furthermore, it is intended to encourage active academics in all fields to ponder over important and perhaps controversial issues beyond their own speciality. Extending from quantum physics and relativity to entropy, consciousness, language and complex systems—the Frontiers Collection will inspire readers to push back the frontiers of their own knowledge.

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Filipe Duarte Santos

Time, Progress, Growth and Technology How Humans and the Earth are Responding

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Filipe Duarte Santos Department of Physics CCIAM-cE3c. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal

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