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Mon 6 Aug, 2007 05:12 pm
Not sure if this goes here; maybe it belongs in the science forum...
Anyways: I don't think I'm going to make it to immortality, and that makes me sad. Science might cure death some day, but I won't get to be a part of it because I'll die before then in an accident; or maybe I'll die of old age before science accomplishes it. Or maybe science never will accomplish it.
I mean, even if science cures aging and disease, they can never cure trauma (accidents, murder, etc.). Yes, I know- you'll tell me about brain uploading. But that's an oversimplification, because our personalities can't be uploaded in a non-physical form.
Man, life sucks. And even if I did make it, and partook (is that a word?) of the scientific immortality, what then? Our species will never conquer the universe or fully understand it. It's like we're going nowhere.
What can I do?
I think Tai Chi has some carob powder you can snort up.
are you sure you cant upload personalities? everything can be simplified into an algorithm or a formula.
The genes that make us are just complex codes, and so are brain also has its own language.
Re: I won't make it to eternal life, and I hate missing out
drews wrote:Man, life sucks.
Maybe you can suck something else...
drews, Go take a look at existentialism. But you have to get something that is very easy to read or else it will just seem like a bunch of bullShit to you.
Or may I recomend the book "The Everything Philosophy book"
http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/meaning1.htm
P.S. Don't go crazy.
if you can live forever but get killed by accidents:
carbon cloning: when drew 1 gets killed by a toaster, bring in drew 2 and nobody will be none the wiser.
you know it makes sense
Your name wouldn't be Bruce, would it?
Quote:Your name wouldn't be Bruce, would it?
depends if its raining outside.
Just one question... if "life sucks" as you say, then why would you want more of it?
Have you seen the movie Death Becomes Her? If you missed it, rent it. It's about a group of people who DO have immortality, and it's not what it's cracked up to be.
flakker wrote:Quote:Your name wouldn't be Bruce, would it?
depends if its raining outside.
I was asking Drews, but thanks for the interesting and funny response
Well ... you could give life all you've got!
OGIONIK mentioned uploading into a computer, if we were made to be 100% immortal, I wonder if we'd lose our humanity? Where's the drive to survive? The rush as you take a chance?
Longing not to die has to come from something. Are we afraid of what comes after? Or just, what the point of our temporary life is?
Eternity is not forever and forever, it is timelessness. But that's another matter.
I recommend to anyone who has a passion for living forever the novel by Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.
I really did not mind at all the "eternity" of my "before birth". Similarly, I expect to not to mind at all the "eternity" of my "after life".
If it were possible to be immortal in the sense of being indestructible FOREVER, it would be such a horror to continue to exist after our sun's nova or the universe as we know it ends.
Face it, kid, you're gonna die. Just like everybody up to now, just like
everybody from here on. Some folks believe in life after death; some don't.
But in either case, all we really have to be sure of is now. So live. Now.
Live a good life. Live a full life. Leave this world a little better for having
been in it.
See you on the other side.
Or not.
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