FUCK YES. Who cares what I look like right now? What kind of vanity bullshit is that? It's immortality! I can learn to deal with being a little over weight or not liking my bangs if it means I don't have to die. SIGN ME UP.
Poll: If a stranger walked up to you on the street, and offered you immortality, would you accept?
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Like I told Belaam, I'm working under the assumption that consciousness and your physical brain are the same. Therefore, your brain remains unchanged and retains all of it's abilities (therefore making you immune to degenerative brain disease) but you can also record new memories because your consciousness exists outside of your brain.Fagotto said:
I also told Belaam that obviously I'm not going for a perfectly realistic scenario.
Well I'm juust starting to get soft, but im still in relatively good shape, i like my hair and general appearance, all in all i would say this is a good deal. However would i WANT immortality is the question. I wouldn't mind living for 200 years or so, but i honestly think it would suck to watch everyone you know grow old and die, over and over. I think i would just hate living forever.
I would assume that from a bio-chemistry standpoint, the brain can only retain so much information. I mean, heck, I'm only in my late 30s, but can only even name a few of my elementary school teachers... people I spent at least 6 hours a day with for 180 days. Even people without mental diseases can get a bit fuzzy in their 80s and 90s. I can't imagine I would be in good shape memory-wise at 200. And at 2,000? If it's all a random blur of images, or a complete memory sink (would I even remember my first wife 1,000 years after she died?), I'm not really interested.ChuQue37 said:
There are several physical caveats in the OP that defy physics (i.e. exercise wouldn't affect muscle mass), but without some mental ones ensuring I keep my sense of self, no way.
Well, no, really, that sounds fucking awful. The part that got me the most was that I can't change my appearance. What's the point then? Life would just become boring. And the fact that I would still feel pain is a *****. Its not worth it, if you think about it, because it means you'll be stuck at your current state forever. You won't progress in any way. Sure you wont regress, either, but life without progression is pointless, if you ask me.
No, and I'm not sure I need to say why, since you just did it for me.
Forever never ends, and humanity is a brief spark, life itself barely a flare, in the time which the universe has still got to exist, assuming it does eventually "end". It would be absolute hell, it's unimaginable quite how horrific it would be. Your brain isn't capable of dealing with living forever.
Additionally, after the earth was destroyed, you'd be in a vacuum, where your lungs would flood with fluid and you'd be in constant intense agony.
I could go on, the reasons not to do this are innumerable, and essentially nullify the reasons anyone might even consider it, which they'd regret almost instantly. Relatively speaking.
Forever never ends, and humanity is a brief spark, life itself barely a flare, in the time which the universe has still got to exist, assuming it does eventually "end". It would be absolute hell, it's unimaginable quite how horrific it would be. Your brain isn't capable of dealing with living forever.
Additionally, after the earth was destroyed, you'd be in a vacuum, where your lungs would flood with fluid and you'd be in constant intense agony.
I could go on, the reasons not to do this are innumerable, and essentially nullify the reasons anyone might even consider it, which they'd regret almost instantly. Relatively speaking.
So under this scenario, I am an unchanging flesh golem controlled by my soul, which retains all knowledge and is also able to form new memories/learn new skills?ChuQue37 said:
I'm assuming the existence of a soul for this... as, obviously, I am also assuming the possibility of magical hobos - neither of which I actually believe in.
But under that scenario, yeah, I'd give it a try. I could always use eternity to build slower than light space ships and explore the universe very slowly.
Afraid I would. Earth blows up, I'll drift and be alone with my thoughts until I fall into another planets orbit. I'll hopefully find a new alien species and become their god. Along the way I'll teach a dog to smoke or something.
Even if the terms for the immortality were awesome, I'd still say no. Who wants to outlive everyone they will ever know? No me, that's for sure.
Muh ... I like the terms, but no. Partially because I want to grow old and die someday, partially because it would be quite annoying to float through space indefinitely, partially because society would notice and would not fucking like it, and partially because I don't want to lose all the friends I ever make, but mostly because if a guy came up to me in the street and offered me immortality I'm damn sure I wouldn't actually believe them for a second ...
Nope. Life sucks, why live longer than I need to? Plus I'd have to suffer through everyone I knew and anyone I ever grew close to dying.