Will science make us immortal?

[Carl-Richard]

19 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

that's a big difference. 

Yeah. But curing aging is a big thing. I think absolute immortality, i.e. when even infinity itself cannot stop you, requires omnipotence. Then we're truly in spiritual territory to say the least.

Just imagine if 10 million years in the future, you run into an inter-galactic, hyper-intelligent, sociopath asshole who constructs a machine that keeps all the atoms in your body away from each other using some force field, or he locks them inside an unbreakable box in liquid form, or he throws them into a black hole. Even if you had the medical capabilities to rejoin each individual atom back together into your physical form, that helps very little if they're being kept forcefully isolated from each other. These are the things we have to start considering 

Edited June 5 by Carl-Richard

[integral]

@Lila9 I know we’re about to make all of Gen Z immortal. 🤣 Immortal tick-tock

Edited June 13 by integral

[integral]

On 2024-06-05 at 1:17 PM, Carl-Richard said:

Yeah. But curing aging is a big thing. I think absolute immortality, i.e. when even infinity itself cannot stop you, requires omnipotence. Then we're truly in spiritual territory to say the least.

Just imagine if 10 million years in the future, you run into an inter-galactic, hyper-intelligent, sociopath asshole who constructs a machine that keeps all the atoms in your body away from each other using some force field, or he locks them inside an unbreakable box in liquid form, or he throws them into a black hole. Even if you had the medical capabilities to rejoin each individual atom back together into your physical form, that helps very little if they're being kept forcefully isolated from each other. These are the things we have to start considering 

That’s a great question, if each atom is forcefully separated but has the potential to return to normal if the force is released, is that person alive or dead? Or does it exist in a state of potential aliveness, is it’s soul free or forever stuck in the potential state. Lmao does it merge with the Godhead on separation or remain a finite experience as separated potential aliveness. 

Edited June 13 by integral

[ZenAlex]

I hope not. I have no interest in live longer than maybe 80-100 years at most. 

I want to return to the void someday.

 

If anything I hope humans extinct ourselves at some point as the planet would be better off without us. 

Humans serve no good purpose on this planet.

Edited June 14 by ZenAlex

[Basman]

I can totally see a technology emerging in the future of digitizing one's own consciousness. Like mapping one's brain or something into a database.

Then you can argue if that is true immortality or not.

[UnbornTao]

4 hours ago, Basman said:

I can totally see a technology emerging in the future of digitizing one's own consciousness. Like mapping one's brain or something into a database.

Then you can argue if that is true immortality or not.

I'd say that that would be something else, not consciousness.