The Foresight Insitute: bleeding edge nanotech dev site
http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/
lotsa ideas here on future chrome
http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/
lotsa ideas here on future chrome
Extended life span is a okay idea, but you run into the problems of gerontocracy (kinda like now), Immortality is vastly overrated
Existing and having problems trumps not existing pretty much every time.
Existing and having problems trumps not existing pretty much every time.
What is the point of living forever? 100 years is becoming a more common life expectancy, and its a good run. If I could live for 200 years, I think I would have gotten bored and thrown in the towel by 150...
Really, have you much experience on "not existing"?
Well, I have an idea. Macleod, you exist for a while.
Why do you presume that I believe there is something beyond death?Well, as someone who sides with the yet unproven fact that once we die, everything ends, and it's not "sleep", or "rest", or any other kind of "vacation" from life, and you don't "go" anywhere, I can only think that not existing is the worst possible thing there could be. I'd say that one would have to be a bit optimistic about there being something after death to think of death as some kind of a relief.
Einstein begs to differ. One of his theories is quite clear about how everyhting that has ever and will ever exist does so all the time. Time being circular/spherical. Therefore, it is theoretically impossible to cease to exist and everything that is going to happen to us, already has, (and will happen again, ad infinitum.)There's no such concept as "trumping something" if you don't exist. Why? Because there isn't anything if you don't exist. There isn't you, there isn't the world. Therefore you can't compare not existing to existing with problems. Existing with problems will always be the better choice, because out of those two, it's the only choice.
I for one am completely comfortable with my own mortality. That is probably because I have looked death in the eye, weighed up my life and came to the conclusion that I did some good with it. Sure I should have done a few things differently and I have some regrets, (most regarding women,) but I am largely happy with my life.I can't help but think that there's some kind of underlying brainwashing behind the whole concept of being bored of life, or being tired of it. Brainwashing that has happened over our lives, and throughout the millennia, about how death isn't the end. Well, once you embrace the - as I put it earlier - yet unproven fact that this is it, you might just hold on to life that much harder, and the whole concept of dying might piss you right off. Well, it does for me, personally. Perhaps I'm weird that way.
Also, death is not the end. We are energy and when we die it doesn't disappear to some void, it changes form.
Yes. Personally, I find that thought comforting. The idea of some religious "eternal life" after death horrifies me.