I am going to live forever, I've been promised eternal life by God. So I can't really answer man.
Would you want to live forever, if it meant your body wouldn't be with you?
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What are the rules here? Cyborg Ninja body? Doll ninja body? Brain in a jar? Plush Doll?
regardless, assuming the body is assassination-proof and looks slightly respectable, I'll do it, raise my own religion and guide mankind into an age of enlightment as immortal guide.
regardless, assuming the body is assassination-proof and looks slightly respectable, I'll do it, raise my own religion and guide mankind into an age of enlightment as immortal guide.
No, while it's true that are alot of thing we will never experience in our lifetime but what's the point to experience those new thing without being able to feel, hear or smell (since you mention we only have our mind and sight). Ok granted I think you also include sound but without smell and touch, extending my life isn't worth it without the other senses. In fact it probably be more hell for me to never have them again.
I think not, human life is meant to end. Most people fear premature, sudden death, but when you're old and world-weary, it will carry you away and you will welcome it with open arms. Live, die, complete your place in the circle of life and be happy to have lived with no regrets. Stop being afraid of completing the circle.
I'm with the nopenopenope crowd here. I'd rather not be a decapitated head in a jar, thank you. Decapitation is one of my worst fears, and if I had to do that to live forever I'd much rather die.
To quote George Forman's head in Futurama,
"As a head without a body, I envy the dead."
Head in a jar? No thanks. Pour my mind into a virtual world where I am unto that of a god? Yes please.
"As a head without a body, I envy the dead."
Head in a jar? No thanks. Pour my mind into a virtual world where I am unto that of a god? Yes please.
If I had some degree of control over what I could see, then it might be interesting. As it is, I spend a significant proportion of my life surfing the web, reading interesting articles, watching YouTube etc. If I could do something like that, even if I had no impact on it, that might be something I'd sign up to. Especially if I had the option to 'sleep' for a while, or to turn myself off altogether.
But if it was an entirely passive experience then no, that sounds like hell to me.
But if it was an entirely passive experience then no, that sounds like hell to me.
Absolutely. My body is just a tool to experience the world, if I could watch the world progress without it then helllzzz yez.
For me the point of living forever (or at least, an insanely long time) would be to soak up as many experiences as I possibly could with my five senses.
And in order to do that, I'm going to need my body. Or at least A body.
Of course, if I was just a head in a jar, I'd probably use the skin cells on my face to clone my body and reattach my head to it.
And in order to do that, I'm going to need my body. Or at least A body.
Of course, if I was just a head in a jar, I'd probably use the skin cells on my face to clone my body and reattach my head to it.
No i wouldn't want to live like that, i would much rather just be dead and gone. For the same reason i don't find the prospect of an "after life" at all appealing.
I have no interest in losing the ability to interact with the world...sounds like a form of torture to me.
luckily i don't for one moment believe in the after life, so i don't expect it to be a problem.
I have no interest in losing the ability to interact with the world...sounds like a form of torture to me.
luckily i don't for one moment believe in the after life, so i don't expect it to be a problem.
I'd be happy to live indefinitely, but not as a disembodied consciousness or something. I'd want a body, mechanical or organic, and the chance to end myself if I wanted.
Being a disembodied consciousness would be pretty cool at first, but damn would it get lonely. I was going to say yes until I thought of how it would bring new meaning to forever alone. Still not sure though.
I'd rather just die even if I got to keep my body. And unless I got put onto a robot body or something at some point there wouldn't be any point to only surviving as a head/brain and eyes because you can't do fuck all but still there and watch the world pass you by.
Nope, wouldn't want to be immortal even if I kept my body and stayed young.
Watching everyone you love die in an infinite cycle? No thanks. I'm not even a third of the way through life and I'm already so jaded from having many people I love die. I'd become a monster if I had to go through that again and again. Or if I didn't get close to anyone to avoid that, well, that would make me a monster too.
So no thank you.
That and I believe in a form of reincarnation anyways, so I'm not too bothered about when I die.
Watching everyone you love die in an infinite cycle? No thanks. I'm not even a third of the way through life and I'm already so jaded from having many people I love die. I'd become a monster if I had to go through that again and again. Or if I didn't get close to anyone to avoid that, well, that would make me a monster too.
So no thank you.
That and I believe in a form of reincarnation anyways, so I'm not too bothered about when I die.
I've already been promised eternal life in a certain sense by that nice carpenter from Nazareth, so I don't really feel the need to tie myself down to the whole "mortal coil" thing.
Besides, death is an important part of life. Probably the most important, when you think about it.
Besides, death is an important part of life. Probably the most important, when you think about it.