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Living forever needs three problems solved. Most coverage only mentions one.

Longevity research gets written about as though lifespan were the whole question. It isn't. This tracker follows three layers at once: extending how long the body lasts, preserving the structure of the brain, and the much harder question of whether what gets preserved is still you. Solving only the first two gets you a very well-documented corpse.

Open the tracker JA

What's insideThe three layers

Lifespan

Senescence, epigenetic reprogramming, senolytics. Tracked with the sceptics included — Matt Kaeberlein is on the list precisely because he pushes back on the field's overclaiming.

Preservation

Connectomics and structural preservation. How much of a brain can currently be mapped, at what resolution, and what that leaves out.

Identity

The layer almost nobody funds. Anil Seth, Thomas Metzinger and Susan Schneider on whether a preserved structure would be conscious, and whether it would be the same person.

A calculator you can argue with

2025's MICrONS mapped roughly 1 cubic millimetre of mouse visual cortex. A human brain is about 1,260,000. Set a yearly rate of progress and your age, and it tells you what year whole-brain mapping arrives and how old you'd be. It is an extrapolation, not a forecast, and the page says so.

LanguageReading this in English

The framing is Japanese; the papers and researcher names it tracks are in English, and the mapping calculator is interactive. A full English edition is planned.

How this site handles translation

We don't machine-translate pages and publish them as if they were written in English. When an English edition exists, it has been written in English. Until then, this page tells you honestly what is on the other side of the link.

Everything on this site is free and has no paywall, in either language.