Immortality - are you ready for it?

[Miss Chicken]

Now, knowing this, would you like to be put into 'stasis' and then live for a short period of time every now and then?
As in: Stasis for 99 years life for 1 year - repeat - repeat - repeat…

I think that would be very stressful as you would have to learn so many things in just a short period of time.

 

[trekkiedane]

I wouldn't mind sticking around for a couple hundred years if only to see what happens to us as a species. But eventually I'd want to go to the next plain.

"Plane" is what I suppose you actually think; would that be the actual nothingness, or some -perhaps artificially created- different 'plane'?

It's a wondrous place. Full of love and light. Whichever one gets there first gives the other the royal tour, agreed?

Hmmm, if a board like this isn't the the right place, I should find another home. My 'belief' is that Iain M. Banks is an avatar; preparing humanity (as seen on Earth) for The Culture's coming - he is a Culture SC-agent trying to make the Minds change their mind -as it were.

 

[Haytil]

The subject of immortality saddens me, because I think ours is one of the last few generations that will live before medical, ageless immortality will be made a reality.

If only I had been born a century later. We ALMOST made it...

 

[Gertch]

Hmmm, if a board like this isn't the the right place, I should find another home. My 'belief' is that Iain M. Banks is an avatar; preparing humanity (as seen on Earth) for The Culture's coming - he is a Culture SC-agent trying to make the Minds change their mind -as it were.

I'll have to look him up as I don't believe I've heard of him.

 

[trekkiedane]

Hmmm, if a board like this isn't the the right place, I should find another home. My 'belief' is that Iain M. Banks is an avatar; preparing humanity (as seen on Earth) for The Culture's coming - he is a Culture SC-agent trying to make the Minds change their mind -as it were.

I'll have to look him up as I don't believe I've heard of him.

FANTASTIC space-opera author out of Scotland; The Culture is a brilliantly described utopia!
I can only recommend his 'Culture' novels (and short stories)! -Best SciFi I've ever read besides Lessing (although totally different, -just mean the quality, not the substance)

 

[msbae]

As long as there's something to entertain me, immortality sounds good.

 

[Sheliak]

Immortality - are you ready for it?

I was ready for it before I was born.

 

[JuanBolio]

Until I choose not to live anymore.

 

[Australis]

Think about how so many things will change in the next 200-300 years. Being able to go on and experience that would be the best thing.

But not as a mind-state in a machine or on another plane. Much of what we do is defined by our physical interaction with the world. The senses.

 

[trekkiedane]

Think about how so many things will change in the next 200-300 years. Being able to go on and experience that would be the best thing.

But not as a mind-state in a machine or on another plane. Much of what we do is defined by our physical interaction with the world. The senses.

Indeed, we live in interesting times: But as a mind state stored in a machine-substrate you'd be able to experience anything you'd like to: better than, say, in a holodeck. The experience would be indeterminable from experiencing 'real life' -if so choosen.


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Now, knowing this, would you like to be put into 'stasis' and then live for a short period of time every now and then?
As in: Stasis for 99 years life for 1 year - repeat - repeat - repeat…

I think that would be very stressful as you would have to learn so many things in just a short period of time.

Actually not. Once our technological state is high enough the change of society will cease to be exponential (imho of course) because only social changes will be left to be made.

When technology reaches a certain level any new technology will be nothing but an update of existing technology.
A person being born in the age of computers and television would not be surprised by artificial intelligence or holographic image processing.
A person living in an age where 'storage' of actual human mind-sets is possible will not find the technology of any subsequent civilization alien in any way.
The changes happening will only be social -however 'strange' those might be- and as such relatively easy to understand: like moving to another country would be today.

 

[TGTheodore]

Somedays I feel I've already outlived my usefulness.

Other days are so great I think I won't have enough time left.

I'll be happy to hit 61 and outlive my father and his father who both died at 60.

I'm in deep shit if I live any longer than that ...

--Ted

 

[RJDiogenes]

Am I ready for immortality? You bet your sweet bippy.

I have always been concerned that the best movie of all or the book I would have enjoyed the most will be released the day after my death.

I've always thought the same thing.

The subject of immortality saddens me, because I think ours is one of the last few generations that will live before medical, ageless immortality will be made a reality.

If only I had been born a century later. We ALMOST made it...

Actually, I'm pretty sure that anybody who can last another fifty years or so has made it.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Until I choose to not live any longer. I'd probably hold out a really long time, but things have to get boring at some point.

 

[blaXXer]

Hell yes i'd live forever if I could, I do NOT want to die ever. Even when the Earth is long gone we've probably colonised other worlds if I live long enough.

Roll on immortality!

THIS.

Heck, how boring can it be exploring al lthere is? amassing heaps and heaps of knowledge and eating stuff nobody's ever eaten before?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Until I choose to not live any longer. I'd probably hold out a really long time, but things have to get boring at some point.

But just think: By the time you finished exploring the whole universe... it will all have changed.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

And at the end, if you're really bored, you could do a Wowbagger and attempt to insult every single being in the Universe - individually, personally, and in alphabetical order.

 

[RoJoHen]

If we're talking about medically-induced "immortality," then it would depend entirely on my quality of life.

 

[Pingfah]

Oh hell yeah I want to be immortal.

Only downside I can see is if the world ends and you end up floating around in space for eternity, unable to reach another planet, or just soaring through the universe hoping you run into one in the next few billion years. That would suck.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'm going to quote myself from this thread:

I think one day it will be the norm to replace body parts and organs by growing new ones via stem cells, maybe one day it will be possible to build a biological machine and transplant your brain into it.

I honestly do not want to die, I would do anything to continue living forever, if that means having new body parts implanted in me and taking regular injections i'm happy to do it. I believe once you're dead theres nothing there, I believe we are nothing more than our brain and therefore if I lived to a time when it was possible to have my brain implanted into some kind of biological machine I would happily do it.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Oh hell yeah I want to be immortal.

Only downside I can see is if the world ends and you end up floating around in space for eternity, unable to reach another planet, or just soaring through the universe hoping you run into one in the next few billion years. That would suck.

That's why whilst you're alive you should construct some kind of space ship with a propulsion system so you can direct it to where you want to go.