Biostasis is the ability of an organism to tolerate environmental changes without having to actively adapt to them.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with — based on contemporary trends — a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil.

Hume offers his friend an objection: if we see an unfinished building, then can't we infer that it has been created by humans with certain intentions, and that it will be finished in the future?

Cryonics ( from Greek κρύος kryos-meaning icy cold ) is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future.

; Cryonics: The emerging medical technology of cryopreserving humans and animals with the intention of future revival.

The very different ways that humans process memory or agree on history ( about the past ) must be, according to most philosophers, kept distinct from ways we employ logic on snapshots of axioms about our own immediate present and the ways we plan and envision an uncertain and collective future.

These future weapons bathed the surviving life of Earth in unspecified forms of radiation and biochemical agents, producing widespread, permanent mutations among humans, animals, and plants.

Only the Bene Gesserit perceive the Golden Path and are therefore faced with a choice: keep to their traditional role of hidden manipulators who quietly ease tensions and guide human progress while struggling for their own survival, or embrace the Golden Path and push humanity onward into a new future where humans are free from the threat of extinction.

In the novel Childhood's End ( 1953 ) by Arthur C. Clarke, all humans have a collective premonition, also described as a memory of the future, of horned aliens which arrive to usher in a new phase of human evolution.

It has been reported that at the 2008 Joint Propulsion Conference, where future space propulsion challenges were discussed and debated, a conclusion was reached that it was improbable that humans would ever explore beyond the Solar System.

In the future that the series depicts ( beginning a few centuries from now and continuing for about a millennium afterward ) this region has been explored by humans and a number of its worlds have been colonized.

Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans in the future.

In this future history, humans conquer and colonise Mars in a long series of wars with its inhabitants.

The collapse will reduce the ability of Earth to support large numbers of humans for a long time into the future.

In the 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, science fiction novel writer Isaac Asimov depicted a future Earth with a largely radioactive crust, humans precariously surviving in the uncontaminated areas in between.

" Known Space " ( also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series ) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10, 000 stars, including Human Space ( 40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth ), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations.

In Niven's future world, the deterioration of age has been largely reversed, so humans live hundreds of years.

Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het ( tomorrow it will happen ), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about a group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot ( the devil's cave ), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst ( train journey to the future ) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans a soul.

Although the possibility exists that significant biological effects on humans may be identified in the future, currently most doctors feel that based on available information the benefits to patients outweigh the risks.

* Ryan Chester's Virtually Reality ( 2011 ) depicts a future world in which most natural wonders have been destroyed and developed upon, and virtual reality systems provide the only way for humans to experience the nature they never knew for real.

The success rate of these procedures is high and is very promising for future treatment in humans.

This study provides encouraging evidence for the future of the use of N-TIRE as a method of treating cancer in humans.

Fatalism is the idea that everything is fated to happen, so that humans have no control over their future.

It was the first tool showing the AI ​​ defined by Edward Feigenbaum in his book about the Japanese Fifth Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World ( 1983 ): " The machines will have reasoning power: they will automatically engineer vast amounts of knowledge to serve whatever purpose humans propose, from medical diagnosis to product design, from management decisions to education ", " The reasoning animal has, perhaps inevitably, fashioned the reasoning machine ", " the reasoning power of these machines matches or exceeds the reasoning power of the humans who instructed them and, in some cases, the reasoning power of any human performing such tasks ".

This leaves humans more vulnerable to medical problems that are caused by poor leg and foot alignments.

Given that genes are universal to living organisms, genetics can be applied to the study of all living systems, from viruses and bacteria, through plants and domestic animals, to humans ( as in medical genetics ).

Galen argued that monkey anatomy was close enough to humans for physicians to learn anatomy with monkey dissections and then make observations of similar structures in the wounds of their patients, rather than trying to learn anatomy only from wounds in human patients, as would be done by students trained by the Empiricist medical sect would.

Task Group 6 was formed in November 2007 to focus on a low-power and short-range wireless standard to be optimized for devices and operation on, in, or around the human body ( but not limited to humans ) to serve a variety of applications including medical, consumer electronics, and personal entertainment.

With some exceptions, such as medical alert bracelets or military dog tags, jewellery normally differs from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to look appealing, but humans have been producing and wearing it for a long time – with 100, 000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.

This is a cause of several medical conditions in humans, including but not limited to:

Their long-term safety and efficacy have not been evaluated on humans in large-scale medical trials.

* Liquid breathing-so far, in the real world, liquid breathing for humans is only laboratory experiments, and ( one lung at a time ) medical treatment.

Although the venom of a few spider and scorpion species can be very dangerous to humans, medical researchers are investigating the use of these venoms for the treatment of disorders ranging from cancer to erectile dysfunction.

The Gorean humans are permitted advanced architectural, agricultural and medical skills ( including life extension ), but are forced to remain primitive in the fields of transportation, communication and weaponry ( at approximately the level of Classical Mediterranean civilization ) due to restrictions on technology imposed by the Priest-Kings.

Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field studying the relationships of social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily processes and quality of life in humans and animals.

Vulcans are typically depicted as stronger, faster, and longer-lived than humans ( although discrepancies have occurred-and although not as long as Vulcans, humans have been shown to live longer in the Star Trek universe than today-presumably due to advances in medical science ).

This suggested similar surgery in humans, and early reports in prominent medical journals ( January 8 ) are that the same effect is seen in humans, at least the small number who have participated in the experimental surgical program.

Alchemy, which was at its high point in the late 16th century when Goldwasser appeared, held gold to have many desirable medical properties ; while modern medicine disputes this, native gold is known to be non-toxic to humans and to pass through the digestive tract unchanged, unlike most other heavy metals.

The observation of a circadian or diurnal process in humans is mentioned in Chinese medical texts dated to around the 13th century, including the Noon and Midnight Manual and the Mnemonic Rhyme to Aid in the Selection of Acu-points According to the Diurnal Cycle, the Day of the Month and the Season of the Year.

Alveolar and polycystic echinococcosis are rarely diagnosed in humans and are not as widespread as cystic echinococcosis, but polycystic echinococcosis is relatively new on the medical scene and is often left out of conversations dealing with echinococcosis, and alveolar echinococcosis is a serious disease that not only has a significantly high fatality rate but also has the potential to become an emerging disease in many countries.

A narrator describes " the truly old ", people, humanoids, humans and others, " human to all appearances ( and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available )" who have walked and continue to walk the earth to this day.

Their venom is not regarded as a serious medical problem for humans ; it often contain a library of polyamine toxins with potential as therapeutic medicinal agents.

* The concept of " life expectancy " has become irrelevant to humans and machines thanks to medical immortality and advanced computers.