having a time machine, how to use it to be immortal??

[gedanken]

i wonder in questions who i never can solved like.

what inside of you make you?
why you can't live in 2 bodies and still have 1 consciousness?
or you can??

using it in time machine, if you go back and find you younger, what happens?
please tell your ideas.

 

[Turniphead]

For an amusing but not terribly in-depth literary exploration of the first question, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hat_Full_of_Sky

 

[gedanken]

interesting, i will read, thanks.

 

[Melkor]

I was pretty sure that a time machine would in fact decrease your life expectancy, at least to the outside viewer.

You'd go about travelling all over the world in time, and yet for comfort and understandings sake, you'd always return to the same place (or thereabouts) in time.

Yet despite being in the same time as you started, you'd have aged by the minutes, hours, years... whatever, that you'd been travelling in time. Eventually this would build up, depending on how addicted you became to it, and you'd have gained a few decades on everyone around you and be physically much older than you should be.

Or the obvious answer is to travel forward to a point where immortality can be provided through technology.

Of course chances are that you'd have to stay there to facilitate the immortality, which would be difficult for most people to abandon their entire old life... On top of that, where do you get the money from? I doubt immortality is cheap.

You might say 'Oh! I have a time machine, I can do anything!' But I think you'd still need business savvy and wit to gather that fortune through time travel... I doubt it's as simple as storing five hundred quid in a bank and getting the millions years of interest for it...

Currency, banking, society would be so greatly changed...Not to mention that it'd be near impossible to prove you owned the money...

Right...I'm overthinking it...Sorry.

 

[Cognisant]

what inside of you make you?

You're asking entirely the wrong sort of question.

No matter how you look at it your idea of who you are is just that, an idea, and though ideas may exist insofar as they're something we can talk about, do you think they are real in a practical sense?

Without this concept of self you individuality and therefore your identity is a fairly moot point, but if ideas are real enough to claim rights, own property and be protected by laws, does that mean an author who conspires the "death" of one of their characters ought to be charged with murder?

 

[gedanken]

hmm good point. my point is that- need have something inside of you to make you,, if you remove your brain your boddie die, if you change your memories who you are die but what you are don't die together, i don't know if im hrong but i think need something there inside the brain to make that strange feature.




Melkor- i still need think about what you say, i still don't understand about get more old if travel in time... i will think about.

 

[Cognisant]

We're recognition systems in a feedback loop.
Our minds are no more real or sacred than software.

So to avoid death you could copy your software, but would that make you immortal or simply create a replacement for the allegorical niche left by your death?

Weirdly I find that a pleasant thought, being undecided over if or not I'd like to live or not being able to die and have another me continue on my behalf is as close as possible to getting to have my cake and eat it too

 

[Fukyo]

Ugh, learn to english please.

 

[gedanken]

Weirdly I find that a pleasant thought, being undecided over if or not I'd like to live or not being able to die and have another me continue on my behalf is as close as possible to getting to have my cake and eat it too

hahaha.. i really laugh, thats sound enough, need duplicate me and cakes ..

Ugh, learn to english please.

sorry, i try avoid mistakes but this not easy.. english isn't my first language, i hope read forum will help me learn this....

 

[Philovitist]

That's an awesome way of learning English! Don't sweat it.

You can have one body with two consciousness (by severing the corpus callosum) but can you have one consciousness for two bodies? It's be really hard for our cognitive architectures to take, given our inability to mulitask.

But you could have one brain plausibly having agency over two bodies, much like you can have one computer sending information to two monitors. You'll need a really creative brain surgeon to get it done, though.

I can't get myself to care much about your other questions. Oh, well!

 

[gedanken]

nice, maybe it's possible.. i'm thinking about it since i create this post and still don't get a answer... i mean all comments here are very useful but still don't a answer..helped me find what was wrong.