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How to grow old with whimsy and wit

By Liz Else

16 November 2011

Self-styled “aged professor” William Ian Miller grows old gracefully in Losing It with his reflections on the time when your faculties fail

DESPITE the best efforts of transhumanists and purveyors of the “singularity”, we all face seeing our bodies eventually collapse and our mental marbles depart singly, or rush out en masse.

Science has no cures for ageing. Mind gyms and brain games might not work as advertised, and neuroscientists and doctors understand normal function not much further than being able to provide generic health messages about taking exercise, avoiding obesity and maybe learning meditation.

So how are we to…

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