• No one lives forever... or do they? (About aging and dying)
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The thought of lying forgotten in the earth, with no perception of anything, well... forever, terrifies the living shit out of me. I want to live long and make a difference in this world :\ [B]Edit:[/B] I have some hope that there is an afterlife after death though. Nobody can truly know what happens to the mind after death, nobody's experienced it to come back and tell us yet.
What if you were able to replace every internal organ except your brain? Considering your brain is constantly changing based on your experience, I think it is safe to say that we won't be able to create replacements of people's brains while retaining a person's original consciousness any time soon. What if you lived for 300 years and, while every other part of your body could be replaced with a pristine version of it, your brain would still be 300 years old? The level of mental deterioration would likely make the prospect of living forever much less appealing.
[QUOTE=SIRIUS;33001026]i think if you desire to sign up for immortality, you shouldn't be allowed to have children[/QUOTE] What if you have like 10 kids and then when you're 50, decide to be immortal
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;33009038]What if you have like 10 kids and then when you're 50, decide to be immortal[/QUOTE]then... tough
If it was unaging Immortality that would be cool, but if its just immorality - It would be kinda pointless as people who are a hundred at the moment are just a load of mush so if they continued to live it would seem that they would just be a sack of shit.
I think thinking of death is kinda comforting
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;32983384]Mind uploading is a bit shit, all you're really doing is making a copy of yourself. I want to live forever, not have a copy of me live forever.[/QUOTE] That'd actually be really fucking weird like you'd die but your copy would continue and think it survived and continued. Personally I want futurama/fallout style stick my brain in a robot although having a normal body just not aging would be preferable.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;33008933]What if you were able to replace every internal organ except your brain? Considering your brain is constantly changing based on your experience, I think it is safe to say that we won't be able to create replacements of people's brains while retaining a person's original consciousness any time soon. What if you lived for 300 years and, while every other part of your body could be replaced with a pristine version of it, your brain would still be 300 years old? The level of mental deterioration would likely make the prospect of living forever much less appealing.[/QUOTE] But if we had the technology to make us live forever I'm sure we'd have the technology to repair our brains.
I agree with you that one lifetime isn't enough but I don't think we should just become immortals with the choice of dying. I think reincarnation would be cool ( I'm not Buddhist by the way) and we could decide whether we want people who knew us to know our new identity or we could just start completely new. If somebody would commit a major crime like murder then their reincarnation privileges would be taken.
Wouldn't mind living about 400-500 more years, it's an interesting time for mankind, and I'd really like to be part of it/ see what happens.
[QUOTE=Apollo2947;32982598]Alright, assuming you don't age if you are immortal, I would want to be immortal just to see the advances in technology and to teach future generations of our lifestyle. But on the topic of death, who here is afraid of death and why? Personally, I'm not afraid but I'm still young and I haven't really experienced death in my family.[/QUOTE] I'm afraid that I will die before I experience everything I want or before I have a sense of accomplishment (I want to create some wonderful piece of art whether that be music, film, paintings etc. I've always loved all forms of arts and I want a chance to express myself through a beautiful masterpiece of art before I die)
[QUOTE=HellSoldier;32995438]I think it's completely selfish to stop future generations from entering this world by preserving your own (if you did introduce new generations, overpopulation would occur). Death is something that must be necessary for humans so that we may be content with our lives and truly admit to what we've done. Sure, some people may live on to do great things and others may do not-so-great things after the point where they "should have died" but it is death that brings us all back together, whatever path in life we choose to take.[/QUOTE] A good alternative to simply being immortal is, when you're near death, being able to upload your consciousness to a machine/server (possibly with others) sort of like the Matrix only without the robots and the vat of goo.
[QUOTE=simonjb;32992371]Exactly, people are so fixed with the idea of things naturally wearing down and dying, but the only thing that causes the body to wear down is when the cell repair and replacement slows down. If you didn't age, your cells would constantly do this, same as when your young, like me at the moment, I don't scar easily because my body is constantly replacing tissue. Provided you get sleep, food and the correct humanly needs your body never has to wear down. And carcarcargo, I agree, [b]the thought of dying just annoys me. I don't want to, I want to keep living, I want to make a difference, I want to have a good extended life and answer the questions I have.[/b] Again (requoting the lion king???) there is more to see than can ever be seen, and more to do than can ever be done...[/QUOTE] Exactly how I feel as well
The Karl Pilkington theory - When you get to a certain age, you start aging backwards - It would be kinda cool, stupid but cool.
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