Poll: If you could, would you "live forever"?
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I think I'm a horrible person. I read this and thought "but think of the upside! You get to see the rest of humanity die, too!"Colour Scientist said:
Sure, I'd lose friends and loved ones, but I think the benefits outweigh the costs....
Yeah, I am disappointed by the total lack off "Back Chat" in this thread. It was practically named for it.
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Not a chance. Without death there is no life anyway, no horizon with which to shape and define it. Death is an built in mechanism of every organism for its own benefit and renewal, and to subvert that would only cause immense suffering. Besides, I think it's pretty glorious that I will come to an end one day and be used to sustain the next generation. That's possibly one of the greatest functions a human can have bestowed upon them, and you want me to abandon it?
Heh, jokes on you as I don't want to reproduce anyway. I would definitely give it a shot and I like the kind of immortality that won't leave me floating through space for however many, many years so yeah, I'd definitely chose that kind of immortality. Granted, I would probably succumb to ennui before I hit my bicentennial...
Relevant!
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html
I'm changing the parameters!!! Coz I'm a prat! Mwahaha! Rebel! Er anyhow, if I could live like Motoko Kusanagi, that'd rock. A brain in a special case which is then inserted into a powerful robot body with internet diving capability.
I don't think i'd want to be a squishy meatbag for all eternity. Heck, i'm not super thrilled about it now.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html
I'm changing the parameters!!! Coz I'm a prat! Mwahaha! Rebel! Er anyhow, if I could live like Motoko Kusanagi, that'd rock. A brain in a special case which is then inserted into a powerful robot body with internet diving capability.
I don't think i'd want to be a squishy meatbag for all eternity. Heck, i'm not super thrilled about it now.
I wouldn't.
I mean, yeah, I would love nothing more than to be with the people I love and care about, and still experience new and amazing things. But, I feel like living forever would get boring after a while, ya know?
I would imagine you would start finding patterns in certain things and life would just lose its luster.
Besides, all things must come to an end anyways.
Those depressing musings was brought to you by someone that spent the whole day driving and would've liked to have known the sweet release of death earlier.
I mean, yeah, I would love nothing more than to be with the people I love and care about, and still experience new and amazing things. But, I feel like living forever would get boring after a while, ya know?
I would imagine you would start finding patterns in certain things and life would just lose its luster.
Besides, all things must come to an end anyways.
Those depressing musings was brought to you by someone that spent the whole day driving and would've liked to have known the sweet release of death earlier.
Eh... why not? I mean, so far, I have no interest of having children of my own...
But seriously, I could use the [immortal] time to catch up on my gaming backlog and shit... and, I guess, see the [continuing] development of the future firsthand...
But seriously, I could use the [immortal] time to catch up on my gaming backlog and shit... and, I guess, see the [continuing] development of the future firsthand...
Absolutely.
I don't want kids. EVER. I am happily a part of what is known as the Childfree movement.
Death frightens me. If I can live forever, I'll jump at the chance. I'd miss my loved ones but we're not... especially close. I think I could function without them when they inevitably died. But I'd throw in the offer. To my mother at least.
If this immortality would also improve the health, I know she'd jump at it.
I don't want kids. EVER. I am happily a part of what is known as the Childfree movement.
Death frightens me. If I can live forever, I'll jump at the chance. I'd miss my loved ones but we're not... especially close. I think I could function without them when they inevitably died. But I'd throw in the offer. To my mother at least.
If this immortality would also improve the health, I know she'd jump at it.
I don't believe we are biologically, or rather, psychologically wired to live forever. If that means eventual mental dissolution - then no.
But if we strip down the question to merely whether I would trade an ability to reproduce, for and ability to live in perpetuity? Yeah, I'd take that deal. I love history with a passion, and having a chance to become the ultimate historian who had witnessed all things in time first hand becomes too tempting to pass up.
But if we strip down the question to merely whether I would trade an ability to reproduce, for and ability to live in perpetuity? Yeah, I'd take that deal. I love history with a passion, and having a chance to become the ultimate historian who had witnessed all things in time first hand becomes too tempting to pass up.
I would gladly give up procreation for immortality, but I'm not sure i would want eternal life, just really long life.
A billion years or so should probably be good, but a trillion? Maybe. But when you truly think about the sheer scale of eternity i feel release from consciousness would be a welcome thing.
Most humans don't live to be 100, but just for argument's sake I'll declare that the average lifespan. 100 = 1010
Anyone with a basic understanding of math will know that 10n is a 1 with n zeros on the end, so 1010 = 10,000,000,000 or ten billion. That's 100,000,000 or one hundred million lifetimes already.
This is an amount of time that would be incomprehensible, but it is only just the beginning.
Imagine 101010. That's 1010,000,000,000 or a 1 with ten billion zeros following it. Getting pretty massive, huh? The number that represents is so large i could not even represent it here.
But it only gets more massive, imagine 10101010 or 1010101010
What about 10101010101010101010
These are numbers beyond all human comprehension, i can not even begin to wrap my head around their approximate magnitude, and yet these are nothing compared to eternity. Eternity just goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on ...
Even assuming the universe isn't eternal, that's still far more time than i would know what to do with. But still, as long as suicide is an option, i would just keep going until i crave the nothingness.
A billion years or so should probably be good, but a trillion? Maybe. But when you truly think about the sheer scale of eternity i feel release from consciousness would be a welcome thing.
Most humans don't live to be 100, but just for argument's sake I'll declare that the average lifespan. 100 = 1010
Anyone with a basic understanding of math will know that 10n is a 1 with n zeros on the end, so 1010 = 10,000,000,000 or ten billion. That's 100,000,000 or one hundred million lifetimes already.
This is an amount of time that would be incomprehensible, but it is only just the beginning.
Imagine 101010. That's 1010,000,000,000 or a 1 with ten billion zeros following it. Getting pretty massive, huh? The number that represents is so large i could not even represent it here.
But it only gets more massive, imagine 10101010 or 1010101010
What about 10101010101010101010
These are numbers beyond all human comprehension, i can not even begin to wrap my head around their approximate magnitude, and yet these are nothing compared to eternity. Eternity just goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on ...
Even assuming the universe isn't eternal, that's still far more time than i would know what to do with. But still, as long as suicide is an option, i would just keep going until i crave the nothingness.
Count me in the immortal wannabe club.
If only to see what kind of games are out in 100 years time. I'd love to mess with virtual reality and what not if humanity reaches that stage.
If humanity reaches an abrupt end, then fortunately you've said we ain't invincible so will just die along with the rest during whatever extinction event it is.
If only to see what kind of games are out in 100 years time. I'd love to mess with virtual reality and what not if humanity reaches that stage.
If humanity reaches an abrupt end, then fortunately you've said we ain't invincible so will just die along with the rest during whatever extinction event it is.
I'd do it without a second thought, hell, I'd probably be among the first batch of test subjects for whatever process makes it possible. Life, any life, is better than dying, because only as long as one is alive does one's existence matter. Contrary to what some will say, death is natural but that doesn't make it valuable in any way. Only an eternal, lasting existence is a worthwhile existence.
Also, I don't care to have kids but if at some point I did I'd either adopt or hopefully do some cloning.
Also, I don't care to have kids but if at some point I did I'd either adopt or hopefully do some cloning.
Humans living forever and gaining incomprehensible knowledge, power, wealth....theoretically should be an excellent thing for the world.
If the problem of current humans is that they're willing to destroy the world for shortsighted, immediate profit, because they're not going to live long enough to face the consequences ANYWAYS, then making the welfare of the future immediately relevant to them should do a great deal to change their tune.
Mountains of wealth and consistent vision working towards vast goals beyond the scope of mortal solutions...
It'd be a matter of ensuring they can't abuse the power they amass.
But yes, I'd do it.
I plan on it.
If the problem of current humans is that they're willing to destroy the world for shortsighted, immediate profit, because they're not going to live long enough to face the consequences ANYWAYS, then making the welfare of the future immediately relevant to them should do a great deal to change their tune.
Mountains of wealth and consistent vision working towards vast goals beyond the scope of mortal solutions...
It'd be a matter of ensuring they can't abuse the power they amass.
But yes, I'd do it.
I plan on it.
Oh...not live "forever", but just use medical technology to avoid dying unnecessarily early?
Is that not what we are doing already? We've increased the average life expectancy a lot with technology, this is just a bit more. You'd still get killed in the next big war.
Is that not what we are doing already? We've increased the average life expectancy a lot with technology, this is just a bit more. You'd still get killed in the next big war.
Ya, of course I would. Any marginally sane person would. What's so great about growing old and dying? Do you ever see a sick old dying person in the hospital who's like "man, this rocks, this is way better than staying young and healthy!"
And the notion of it being terrible and boring and lonely is largely just an invention of people butthurt over their inevitable death who want to believe that they're actually "lucky" not to live forever.
The overpopulation thing is a legitimate issue. People would have to stop having children, which means eventually there just won't be any children in the world. I'm sure some people would hate living in a world without children. There are some advantages to it though. For example we wouldn't need to spend any money on lower level education anymore, and our media wouldn't be divided up to appeal to separate age groups. You also wouldn't have to worry about saving up for retirement, because you won't be retiring, at least not permanently. Think about how much money get's thrown away in nursing homes and medical bills in our later years. It's insane and tragic.
And the notion of it being terrible and boring and lonely is largely just an invention of people butthurt over their inevitable death who want to believe that they're actually "lucky" not to live forever.
The overpopulation thing is a legitimate issue. People would have to stop having children, which means eventually there just won't be any children in the world. I'm sure some people would hate living in a world without children. There are some advantages to it though. For example we wouldn't need to spend any money on lower level education anymore, and our media wouldn't be divided up to appeal to separate age groups. You also wouldn't have to worry about saving up for retirement, because you won't be retiring, at least not permanently. Think about how much money get's thrown away in nursing homes and medical bills in our later years. It's insane and tragic.
My initial response was: God no. Immortality sounds like a nightmare.
But...why not?
I can just end it if I want to, so, sure, sign me up for the impossible thing that none of us will ever experience, but will gladly waste time daydreaming about while we continue on our collective, inexorable crawl toward the grave.
But...why not?
I can just end it if I want to, so, sure, sign me up for the impossible thing that none of us will ever experience, but will gladly waste time daydreaming about while we continue on our collective, inexorable crawl toward the grave.
I honestly don't even see how this is an actual question. Its basically like asking would you like free money, no strings attached or would you like to be awesome. Basically redundant questions.