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Okey, but what is immortality? (I love to get the definition of words  ).
Is it to "never die"... Dying is... losing your consciousness with no way back or so... so being immortal doesn't means you can not be like almost a plant forever... or even in comma. I think what we want to avoid is damage. If something was "very damaged" but alive... I don't think he would want to live forever... well, maybe yes... but as the damage went bigger...
There's a Greek Gods legend about it... I think some God punished some other or some man, by making an eagle destroy the man's chest and heart and when the man was about to die... the God gave to him a brand new heart then the eagle started again... so forever. |
I explained before that i dont actually mean "immortality" in its dictionary defination. but it is the easiest way to generalize the idea of living far longer than we currently do.
and the beauty about the looking at this development as a possibility in the future is that as it seems to be projected, we wiuld have full control of whether we want to continue to become younger or live longer or if we would rather follow old age on its normal course to death.
there wouldn't be any Prometheus' bound to a rock and tortured by an eagle eating at his imperishable liver, because Prometheus could simply select to not continue. At least that's how it works in my glorified view of the future of immortality.
beocming very damaged brings up completely different problems altogether. hopefully by the time we have figure out immortality issues, we would have also figured out incredible advances in medicle science and therefore even "very damaged" would be repairable. but again, thats an optomistic speculation on my part.
first, we need to destroy coorperation.