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| slovach wrote: | | Many of the bodies functions can be emulated well enough to keep you alive already. By the time we'd have fully working, awesome robot brains, this shit would be trivial at best. |
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| Drkgodz wrote: | | Eternal life, as in living forever in your body is impossible. You would die of cancer eventually from cell mutations. |
This is the future. Of course it'll be curable.
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I think something allowing something similar to immortality will eventually come along, but I think whoever discovers it will keep it a secret for as long as possible. It may even die with those who discovered it.
Or, it may become part of society and society may adapt to it. For example, controlled population / reproduction (think HL2, only it's the Patriot Act 3.0 keeping your sperm from escaping your testicles).
But personally, if I had the option of never dying, I would take it and spend every second trying to learn and study everything about everything.
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ONLY then can I learn to build a time-machine, go back in time, and command thousands of Egyptians to build giant triangle-like structures for me. And you will see them as you live on, and you will know, from this post that it was I, Shikakapoop, who built the pyramids.
... I'm only assuming that since there are pyramids, that we did discover immortality, I got the chance to participate, and then I built a time machine and went back.
Now, to wait.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Considering technological singularity is scheduled to happen within the next 20 years, I believe we may see pseudo-immortality in our lifetime.
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Maybe they'll figure out some way to do it. And by that I mean like, they could do brain transplants into machines or something, not make your body last forever, but would you want to do it?
I wouldn't.
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Well, death is mainly organ failure, and I believe most of the time it isn't the brain. And people have already succeeded in making organs. So yes, I do think its possible.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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immortality can never exist. Everything has an life cycle. The sun will die and when it does how do you plan to live?
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When people say they wouldnt like to be immortal because they see their loved ones die i just tell them that they die anyway, and maybe after a few hundred years you would easy get over any emotion in that way. I dont care if they had a fountain of youth or hardrives to live forevor, i would take anything
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| JesusLovesYou wrote: | | immortality can never exist. Everything has an life cycle. The sun will die and when it does how do you plan to live? |
how are we supposed to answer a question that theoretically seen will be answer-able first when the technology is developed?
We're all just guessing, but we can use what we've learnt from previous things.
Take internet for example, go back to 1950 and see how large the possibility of a word-wide spread network like the current one would be.
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| Drkgodz wrote: | | Eternal life, as in living forever in your body is impossible. You would die of cancer eventually from cell mutations. |
This is where cyborgs come in.
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| xV wrote: | ASN3S:
"You get the phone call one night. It's hard to understand the speaker, but you gather that it's your mother. She's crying. Your father has just passed away. You don't realize you're crying until you feel the tears dropping on your arm. The funeral is next week, you mark the day and dread it. You're not sure if you can face the people, wearing black like any stereotypical funeral. Except it's not stereotypical, it's your father. Or is it?"
"It's been a few years. You get another call. Your mother has just passed away. It hits you just as hard as the day your father's consciousness left the Earth. Another funeral, one of the hardest moments in your life is returning, all too familiar."
"One by one, your friends pass away. Until the day comes. Your spouse is taking a nap, and she isn't waking up. Frantically, you shake his/her arm and by the end of it you're screaming his/her name at the top of your lungs. You quickly phone the local emergency number, and they come and take him/her away in an ambulance. You phone your son/daughter, realizing that now you're the one making the call."
"It's been well over 125 years. Your son/daughter is a senior citizen. You feel fit as ever. You don't even look that old. A complete stranger would place you in your 40's. You're wondering what's happening. Or rather, what's not happening."
"It's been 200 years. You broke down in tears the day your child died. You considered taking your own life, but couldn't do it in the end. Leading a miserable, day-to-day life, you're questioning your own perception of reality."
"You've made new friends. They died too. All of them. Your emotions have long since been mangled and destroyed. You don't know what to believe any more. It continues in an endless cycle. Forever. Life bores you in all aspects, long since grown uninteresting and bland."
What if everyone was immortal? Then you wouldn't go through any of that. Still, life is horrible and to experience it once is enough for me. I've always thought like this and probably countless others.
When I was young, I always wanted to grow up. I thought it would be cool to drive, to work, to get your money, live on your own, all of that. Now, I'm grown up (not an adult, but you get what I mean) and I want to be young again. Not worrying about bills, or all these obstacles that you have to face.
I'm sure many people out there would like to live on forever. I'm sure if they ever reach it, they'll want their life to end someday.
I don't know if any of what I said makes sense, but yeah. |
Pretty much immortality is something that everyone thinks it's good, because they only see the good side of it. Once they get it, they're fucked over, & they regret it, but it's too late.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I could go for living a longer then average time, like 175 years, but I would never choose to live forever.
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| Immortality itself is impossible, no matter how many copies of yourself you have if someone comes and shoots you or something guess what? You die. your next body comes, it dies, immortality can never be reached because it was never meant to in the circle of life
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Immortality is impossible.
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| Safko wrote: | | JesusLovesYou wrote: | | immortality can never exist. Everything has an life cycle. The sun will die and when it does how do you plan to live? |
how are we supposed to answer a question that theoretically seen will be answer-able first when the technology is developed?
We're all just guessing, but we can use what we've learnt from previous things.
Take internet for example, go back to 1950 and see how large the possibility of a word-wide spread network like the current one would be. |
Stars die, they all do. Even the sun will die. And without the sun there can't be no life.
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