Like other biomedical goals, discovering the processes that cause aging or determine our life span would have a strictly positive value.

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Discovering the processes that cause aging or determine our lifespan can have both positive and negative implications. Positively, it could lead to treatments that extend healthy life. Negatively, it could lead to ethical, social, and economic issues, such as overpopulation or unequal access to life-extending technologies.

Like Other Biomedical Goals, Discovering the Processes That Cause Aging