If You Could Achieve Immortality Through Technology Would You Do It?

This reminds me of that Greek myth about the woman, sorry name escapes me at the moment, who asked for immortality but failed to ask for eternal youth. What fun is it to live forever if you age appropriately. no. thanks.

 

Well, in the example I pointed out, the immortal aspect would be that digital self, not the original body. Which wouldn't really age in any meaningful way.

 

Okay. I see you have much to learn. I hope you live long enough for all that you desire. Humility is learned--often painfully, but good nonetheless.

 

Well, my guess was that the non-believers would want immortality through technology and the believers would not and that seems to be the way it turned out.

I would not opt to live forever. I'm not in a hurry to die but I do not fear death either.

 

well how could you really tell who is a 'believer' and who is not?

 

If given the choice I would want immortality through my contributions; my poetry, my humor, my charity. I don't need to see it all or know it all; if that were possible it would all be worthless, and an eternity of that sounds horrific.

If it affects the accounting process, I'm in the nonbeliever column.

 

Yet it sounds like you don't like to wonder.

For example, just before you said you have an immortal soul. That's the opposite of wondering, it's presupposing.

 

Awe, rather than presupposition.

I don't discount that I could be entirely wrong. If I am, I am sincerely wrong.

However, faith is not a presupposition--it is a response to the experience of awe. So I have faith in that which I do not know for certainty.

 

Preferring to live is not the same thing as fearing death. Why fear nothing? One does not need to be afraid of dying in order to prefer living.

 

It won't happen. It's simply an impossibility. The longer you live, the more errors occur in DNA replication/translation/transcription, etc.

 

Buddhism is about ways to avoid the appaling prospect of living forever - that is what is so appealing about it. Still, no accounting for tastes, is there?

 

I haven't read the article he refers to, but I expect that the nanotechnology would maintain the body in an everlasting form, repairing everything as it gets damaged back to a preprogrammed state. How this could happen, I have no idea, but more probable then not it could happen in the near future considering the speed of technological progression in the last 200 years(even faster in the last 20 years).

Personally, I'd like to live forever with the guarantee that I can opt out whenever I wish to. I'd like to live a while considering how much will be going on in the next 100 years, but living just because is not a life I want. Better to have a restful death.

 

Ok, faith is awe. I'm sure some will also say it's love. Or submission. Or whatever emotion is prevalent for that person. No problem.

But it's not true that faith is not based on presupposition. In fact, that is all it is for the very simple reason that something that can never be evidenced can only be maintained by presupposition.

 

If you like. There are many ways to characterizes the myriad nuances of faith.

God can be evidenced to an individual. I have been given ample evidence in my life to believe. I do not fully understand it, but I believe based on the evidence explicit in my life. Perhaps at one point in my life, it was a "presupposition," but I never was the sort to believe in anything without reason. I have always been somewhat suspicious of people in power and their "authority." So, I really doubt there was a time I accepted without reason (which "presupposition" implies).

Anyway--my faith is a response to the evidences (which inspire awe in me) manifest in my experience of this life. --Nothing "provable," mind you--simply ample evidence for my trust in what I experience and hold to be true.

 

life extension rather than immortality your probably not indestructible um id live until i got sick of it with technology if i could, can I get some enhancements to my intelligence while I’m at it?

 

it might work out for someone maybe it’s who has the right mind to live forever?

 

No. Nothing is compared for the bliss that awaits he who believes in the lord Jesus Christ.

 

And? Is there any problem? No. Learn and wanting to learn everything is good. Is a good goal.

Wanting to have aa lot of knowledge how the things work is not bad. This curiosity to answer the things is not bad it's really good and it is what makes us to advance.

 

Apart from anything else, it would get too full to function. Think of all those interminable memories, for a start!

 

Yes - quite a few people have pleasant hallucinations at the point of death.
I hope to see my parents again before I go.

 

Advance toward what?

Advancing in time does not necessarily mean an improvement in condition.

 

You will be judged for the sins of your life. Be wise or accept what you know awaits you.

 

that and weaseling out of work...except for weasels.

 

you have to do it. refusing medical treatment that will prolong your life is tantamount to suicide.


it's not that you really would live forever. the longer you live the more likely an accident, natural disaster, or homicide will get you.

 

No, I wouldn't want to live forever. This world is already collapsing at a disturbing rate, I don't want to be here in the next 200 years when things are really going to be bad.