>>12016040First of all, quotes are not a replacement for reasoning.
Second of all, "more important" is meaningless statement, it does not act to qualify or clarify anything, it is figurative.
Third of all, "more important than" is not the same thing as: 'the important thing', otherwise we would be able to solve problems with imagination alone, without reason, without prior knowledge, but we cannot.
Lastly, stop trying to argue with soundbites and faux-sophistic rhetoric, it's sad.
>>12016050>... immorality... Heat death, or Big Crunch, would like to know your location. Immortality is a nonsense word, the word you're looking for bio-indefinite mortality, and I'm all for that, but genetic engineering is not the solution to that issue, because it involves so many processes. Instead, the likely solution will involve biogerontological nanomedicine making use of things like biophysics.
By the way, there is a point at which you are so open-minded, that nothing stays within it and you become a vacuous airhead.