Disease and Ageing. Oh Death, be not so preening and proud!

David Deutsch (The Beginning of Infinity) points out that
death, from disease or old age, has 

tremendous resonace in all cultures.

It also an unmatched reputation for 

insolubility,(except among believers in the 

supernatural). Death from old age or disease

it is taken to be the epitomy of insoluble

problems and the ageing process an insuperable 

obstacle. 

But Deutsch argues there is no rational basis for 

this reputation. He maintains it is deeply parochial 

to deem the problem of ageing insoluble.

The problem of ageing is of the same 

general type as that of disease. 

Sceintific/medical knowledge in the field is increasing 

exponentially and the complexity of the problem

is not infinite.