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onpon4
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To live forever is one of the scariest things i can think of - just imagine the boredom after say 300 years...
I've never quite understood this attitude. Assuming you stay in good mental and physical health (which is quite a big assumption), why would living forever be boring? There's plenty to see and do in this world already, and in 300 years one would expect enough societal change to keep things fresh. Now, living as a helpless brain in a jar forever, that is just creepy.
This is my attitude. As long as other humans continue to exist, and you can do things, life wouldn't get boring. I'm sure there will be plenty of video games, and you can of course learn new things during your infinite life. Of course, once humans go extinct, unless you have enough knowledge to keep everything going (or the infrastructure is self-sustaining, which would be sweet), life would probably get boring, but if/when that happens, what's stopping you from ending your life?
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onpon4
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To live forever is one of the scariest things i can think of - just imagine the boredom after say 300 years...
I've never quite understood this attitude. Assuming you stay in good mental and physical health (which is quite a big assumption), why would living forever be boring? There's plenty to see and do in this world already, and in 300 years one would expect enough societal change to keep things fresh. Now, living as a helpless brain in a jar forever, that is just creepy. Forever is a pretty long time. Much longer than 300 years. The strong possibility of the extinction of the species evenutally would turn me off to living forever. Also, when the universe starts to melt away at 10^50 years or whatever and you're living in a big void, I think you've probably seen enough.
It wouldn't be possible to be made unkillable. Effectively, you would be killed when your body can no longer function (consume energy), just like any biological body. Like I said, when it becomes pointless to live anymore, you can kill yourself. What's stopping you?
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Valos Cor
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Forever is a pretty long time. Much longer than 300 years.
The strong possibility of the extinction of the species evenutally would turn me off to living forever. Also, when the universe starts to melt away at 10^50 years or whatever and you're living in a big void, I think you've probably seen enough.
I don't understand. Why does it melt in 10^50 years?
I think life will stay pretty interesting even after several hundred years. I DO hope my future spouse will be able to live forever as well. Well, if the species die...what's to stop you from operating the factories (or make your own) that humans used to operate and - in the course of several years, build your own starship, supply it, and go exploring for another species? Go from planet to planet, returning of course to check up on your factories or resupply, until you find a sentient species.
Also, its not like a species lives only for a short period. It may take humanity a few million years, but imagine the species you'd find (like Star Control *hint* *hint*). There's a good chance they'd take a while to die off, and a few million years probably takes a while to burn off. In a helpless jar (or life support system) with only the brain... yeah, that WOULD be creepy... no eyes, no ears, no nose, nothing, nothing to do but think. I think the brain would just mentally die or go crazy.
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I'm the kind of person that uses Linux and seems to be a very literate adult but has no idea how to do anything code-wise beyond basic stuff.(such as su -<password> yum install uqm) Except I didn't install UQM that way...I used Add/Remove Software...
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The problem is, it wouldn't be possible to live "forever", because as soon as you find yourself unable to find an energy source, you would die. It's not that complicated of a concept. "Forever" really just means "as long as I want", or maybe "as long as humans exist".
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SweetSassyMolassy
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To live forever is one of the scariest things i can think of - just imagine the boredom after say 300 years...
I've never quite understood this attitude. Assuming you stay in good mental and physical health (which is quite a big assumption), why would living forever be boring? There's plenty to see and do in this world already, and in 300 years one would expect enough societal change to keep things fresh. Now, living as a helpless brain in a jar forever, that is just creepy. Forever is a pretty long time. Much longer than 300 years. The strong possibility of the extinction of the species evenutally would turn me off to living forever. Also, when the universe starts to melt away at 10^50 years or whatever and you're living in a big void, I think you've probably seen enough. It wouldn't be possible to be made unkillable. Effectively, you would be killed when your body can no longer function (consume energy), just like any biological body. Like I said, when it becomes pointless to live anymore, you can kill yourself. What's stopping you?
You may have said that, but I was responding to Novus who asked why living forever would be boring. If you really live forever, then that means you can't die. You can't have both.
Living as long as you want on the other hand would be great.
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I am not always understand about what you speak, unfortunately.
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Not to mention, you living forever means your projects live forever.