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"IMO, aging is just a way to ensure that dying occurs"

The research 100% disagrees with you.

Aging even occurs in computers: every computer will eventually get in an unexpected state that it cannot recover from. This could even be caused by a stray UV ray that flips a bit in an important memory sector.




Computers are not autonomous self repairing and duplicating systems with the goal of survival hardcoded.


But computers are also very simple and very regimented systems where everyone makes the assumption that their state will never accidentally change and yet they still age




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