122 sats \ 3 replies \ @Ed_Relight 24 Aug 2023 \ on: POLL: Would you become immortal, if you could? meta
As long as I have a choice of ending it, easy YES.
People who say NO just deprive themselves of the choice.
Also, there is a strange duality: mortal people assume finite life to be meaningful and important while infinite - empty and devoid of any purpose but life itself.
But there are so much more possibilities with longer life, so many passion projects spanning centuries, grand builds for millenia, the multitude of experiences to see, places to be, people to meet and things to do!
But sure, dying after a couple decades is good because it is "natural", as if all our other aspects of life are soo natural. Hell, I wonder if the cavemen would choose their brief life full of struggle and survival to a life of a modern human, perhaps not so exciting, but infinitely more interesting
But sure, dying after a couple decades is good because it is "natural", as if all our other aspects of life are soo natural. Hell, I wonder if the cavemen would choose their brief life full of struggle and survival to a life of a modern human, perhaps not so exciting, but infinitely more interesting
Damn, you might have actually changed my mind now
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interesting perspective! Perhaps the "mortal mind" can't see beyond its own paradigm, which is understandable, and infinite life is actually a blessing I cant even comprehend right now.
At the same time, I do think it's perfectly healthy for us mortal minds to want finite life, despite what the infinite may promise.
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Yeah, every biological organism has a programming to survive long enough to create some offspring, hopefully giving them genes undamaged by the inevitable oxidization, and then promptly die to leave more space and resources for the next generation. I don't think biological humans should live forever, btw, too much resources needed. Now the energy-based species, on the other hand... ;)
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