# Lifetime and world-time in accelerated medicine. An essay on the consolation of synchronisation

## TL;DR

This essay explores how people in science and leadership seek comfort by aligning their short lifetimes with the vast timeline of the world through accelerated medicine.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a philosophical analysis of how accelerated medicine is framed as a means to synchronize human lifetime with world-time.

## Key findings

- Prominent figures use accelerated medicine to imagine a privileged position in humanity's timeline.
- They seek consolation by attributing religious elements to medical progress.
- This synchronization effort reflects a desire to conclude humanity's prehistory in their own lifetime.

## Abstract

The essay examines how prominent scientists, politicians, and managers respond to the condition of human existence that a human being is only a short time in the long time of the world. In connection with the accelerated medicine and its predicted progress, they segment the future and imagine themselves at a new stage of humanity. They strive for a. privileged relationship to the world by claiming to conclude humanity’s prehistory in the foreseeable future, if possible, in their own lifetime. They are trying to synchronise their lifetime with the world-time. In this way they hope for consolation, draw on old religious motifs and attribute religious elements to medicine.