Being immortal would be a blessing and a curse, watching all you ever loved die around you again and again... you would have to learn to block grief.
And blocking the grief would mean taking out emotions which would screw you up a bit, to put it bluntly.
Yah i started this thread from that comment. But how would it screw me up?
People have emotions. Take love, for example. People become attached and fond of eachother. So, now imagine a world where everyone you love will eventually vanish within time and not being able to do anything about it. imagine knowing this and it still happening.
The obvious argument to this is simple: Over time, you will become used to this.
Or another argument is: One needs to learn not to get so attached to other people/things.
In both cases, it involves destroying your emotions, even partially. What is anyone without emotions? What is life without emotions? Yes, one can exist indefinitely with immortality but can one really live?
People have emotions. Take love, for example. People become attached and fond of eachother. So, now imagine a world where everyone you love will eventually vanish within time and not being able to do anything about it. imagine knowing this and it still happening.
The obvious argument to this is simple: Over time, you will become used to this.
Or another argument is: One needs to learn not to get so attached to other people/things.
In both cases, it involves destroying your emotions, even partially. What is anyone without emotions? What is life without emotions? Yes, one can exist indefinitely with immortality but can one really live?
Im in it for the science. So yah i think i cant kill myself inside.
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People have emotions. Take love, for example. People become attached and fond of eachother. So, now imagine a world where everyone you love will eventually vanish within time and not being able to do anything about it. imagine knowing this and it still happening.
The obvious argument to this is simple: Over time, you will become used to this.
Or another argument is: One needs to learn not to get so attached to other people/things.
In both cases, it involves destroying your emotions, even partially. What is anyone without emotions? What is life without emotions? Yes, one can exist indefinitely with immortality but can one really live?
Im in it for the science. So yah i think i cant kill myself inside.
Is that all you love? If so, is it not possible for technology to digress or possibly progress so much to create a pseudo-utopiac society that is illusioned by "technology"?
Is that all you love? If so, is it not possible for technology to digress or possibly progress so much to create a pseudo-utopiac society that is illusioned by "technology"?
I would like that.
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The Op has not replied. I think they just died/kidnapped/brought to hell/had their soul taken.
Is that all you love? If so, is it not possible for technology to digress or possibly progress so much to create a pseudo-utopiac society that is illusioned by "technology"?
I would like that.
Instead of arguing about dystopias and Plato's Cave and Ayn Rand, let me present a more dire argument: once all of humankind is destroyed but you, doomed to live until the ends of time alone with no-one and nothing to turn to but yourself, would that not affect a man? Would that not destroy him from the inside out?
It's impossible to become immortal based on our laws. If the laws were different everyone would be immortal, same applies if immortality comes from technology.
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Is that all you love? If so, is it not possible for technology to digress or possibly progress so much to create a pseudo-utopiac society that is illusioned by "technology"?
I would like that.
Instead of arguing about dystopias and Plato's Cave and Ayn Rand, let me present a more dire argument: once all of humankind is destroyed but you, doomed to live until the ends of time alone with no-one and nothing to turn to but yourself, would that not affect a man? Would that not destroy him from the inside out?
Yes i would go insane. For millenia i will wander around doing nothing. I might eventually snap and turn sane. Very sane. Then I could start to learn about the universe or maybe fall of a cliff and die.
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I for one welcome our new spambot overlords.
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The Op has not replied. I think they just died/kidnapped/brought to hell/had their soul taken.
It's impossible to become immortal based on our laws. If the laws were different everyone would be immortal, same applies if immortality comes from technology.
There is a way to be immortal but it invloves a supercomputer and a cloning facility.
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I for one welcome our new spambot overlords.
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"Any exposure is good exposure"
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The Op has not replied. I think they just died/kidnapped/brought to hell/had their soul taken.
Yes i would go insane. For millenia i will wander around doing nothing. I might eventually snap and turn sane. Very sane. Then I could start to learn about the universe or maybe fall of a cliff and die.
And blocking the grief would mean taking out emotions which would screw you up a bit, to put it bluntly.
Yah i started this thread from that comment. But how would it screw me up?
People have emotions. Take love, for example. People become attached and fond of eachother. So, now imagine a world where everyone you love will eventually vanish within time and not being able to do anything about it. imagine knowing this and it still happening.
The obvious argument to this is simple: Over time, you will become used to this.
Or another argument is: One needs to learn not to get so attached to other people/things.
In both cases, it involves destroying your emotions, even partially. What is anyone without emotions? What is life without emotions? Yes, one can exist indefinitely with immortality but can one really live?
Im in it for the science. So yah i think i cant kill myself inside.
What do you mean "Im in it for the science"?
I love seeing technology progress.
I would like that.
When the Earth is a barren, lifeless landscape, I will wander for millenia until I invent a spacecraft out of dust.
Or something like that.
Computers scare me.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/19/download-the-minecraft-demo/
Instead of arguing about dystopias and Plato's Cave and Ayn Rand, let me present a more dire argument: once all of humankind is destroyed but you, doomed to live until the ends of time alone with no-one and nothing to turn to but yourself, would that not affect a man? Would that not destroy him from the inside out?
It's impossible to become immortal based on our laws. If the laws were different everyone would be immortal, same applies if immortality comes from technology.
http://www.minerwars.com/?aid=640
Yes i would go insane. For millenia i will wander around doing nothing. I might eventually snap and turn sane. Very sane. Then I could start to learn about the universe or maybe fall of a cliff and die.
There is a way to be immortal but it invloves a supercomputer and a cloning facility.
Then I tip my hat to you and bid adieu.
I do the same.