How can we become immortal?

[Brontosaurie]

We'll have the time. Zukenburg(whatever his surname is) already caters for a market that does not yet exist. The truest of visionaries.

that would be zukenbrug marc, mister alpha nerd!!!

anyway, yes i emphatically agree he brought the space age tools way before their purpose was known. a visionary indeed.

 

[PhoenixRising]

If I am immortal, I am bound to kill myself some time or another. We are animals, we are instinctively wired to breed and then die. Sure, human instincts are more sophisticated, we have a hunger for knowledge, entertainment etc., but the will to pursue these endeavours wanes with immortality. After a thousand years, I will have been in every country on earth, used every drug, followed every dogma, raised many children, and studied many books. Sure, developments like space travel might bring in new elements for enjoyment, but will you still enjoy it after 10 000 years? 100 000 years? Things will get repititive, dull, meaningless.
After that period of time, a bullet to the brain will be salvation.

We only enjoy life because life is finite. We only seek success, happines and companionship becuase life is finite. We only invent reasons to live because life is finite. What then shall we do if life is infinite?

Personally, my desire to live indefinitely is based on my desire to understand the cosmos completely. I don't know that 1,000 years would be enough time to succeed in this endeavor, so I would probably need to exist longer. I am also very interested in experiencing the evolution of the human race into whatever form we will end up taking.

I'm unsure if the sort of reasons we have for desiring existence right now will apply in the future. As we evolve, becoming something not thought of as "human", it's likely our motivations will evolve as well. Perhaps someday we won't even need motivations in order to exist.

 

[Cognisant]

I'm living for the next bit of cracker and brie.

Contentment is having petty desires. *nom nom nom*

I have now experienced cracker and brie, with the memory fresh in my mind I know exactly what the next one will taste like *nom nom nom* still good.

 

[Rook]

Personally, my desire to live indefinitely is based on my desire to understand the cosmos completely. I don't know that 1,000 years would be enough time to succeed in this endeavor, so I would probably need to exist longer. I am also very interested in experiencing the evolution of the human race into whatever form we will end up taking.

I'm unsure if the sort of reasons we have for desiring existence right now will apply in the future. As we evolve, becoming something not thought of as "human", it's likely our motivations will evolve as well. Perhaps someday we won't even need motivations in order to exist.

Quite true. My statement has a flawed outlook, it was not that well thought out. If our motivations change, and they do change within one's lifetime, our outlook will change.

I viewed the subject through a negative air, and ignored my love for knowledge. Immortality is the ultimate dream for one who wishes to learn, and human evolution and scientific advances will make the times of boredom worth it. One may become bored at times, but there will always be something new and entertaining on the horizon.

My statement falls apart, it's basement built on negativity.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Quite true. My statement has a flawed outlook, it was not that well thought out. If our motivations change, and they do change within one's lifetime, our outlook will change.

I viewed the subject through a negative air, and ignored my love for knowledge. Immortality is the ultimate dream for one who wishes to learn, and human evolution and scientific advances will make the times of boredom worth it. One may become bored at times, but there will always be something new and entertaining on the horizon.

My statement falls apart, it's basement built on negativity.

I think your statement wasn't flawed. It was just one of the perspectives you can take on things. It is quite true that we are bound by finite and we may in the end be unable to entertain ourselves forever. That is a great unknown.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."
— John F. Kennedy

Become an idea and then I suppose you won't have to worry about death because your vision will carry on without you physically being there.

 

[tvrgvryen]

The process would be immensely strenuous. One impediment is that the brain has yet to be fully understood, and in order for anything to be achieved it must first be wholly understood. The brain is so central to human life that it's no wonder that it should be a crucial part in reaching immortality. I totally think immortality is possible through genetic engineering and technological means. Of course, time would be necessary for science and technology to advance enough. If more people were to take on pursuits in this area, things could speed up much better with the contribution and efficient utilization of everyone's knowledge and skills. At the moment, it's actually going pretty well considering our gradual medical breakthroughs and advances as seen in bioprinting. Here's a short, entertaining video that introduces the idea of immortality, conveying its gist overall okay though the information is not entirely correct. You should do more research on your own by taking advantage of the plethora of various resources that are available at your feet.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/immortal-cells-biologically-possible-live-forever_n_2124813.html

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

your soul is already immortal. Your DNA is stored with God and His angels will, at some point in time after your physical death, re-combine the elements which form your physical body and merge it once again with the immortal soul; never to be separated again. That is, at some point in time after death, each person who has ever lived -their eternal soul- will be reunited with the eternal version of their physical body.

For now its dust to dust and ashes to ashes...

 

[The Void]

Sense of self is an abstract sense.
There was never one distinct singular permanent 'You' in the first place.
There is no I.
There is only Void.
You will live on in one form or other that is for sure.
But it is uncertain (to me) that your consciousness will live on.
What makes you you?
What makes consciousness consciousness.
conscuiousness can only exist if there is something to be conscious of.
ANd that something is pretty much ever-changing.
Our belief, thoughts etc changes every second. (atleast mine changes. I was a hindu, thena christian, then a buddhist, then an atheist, then igtheist, then nothing. This is just a simple example. There are multiple sense and lots of stuff. Teh sense of continuituity is a produtc of individual neurons workings individually or something idk i am not a neuroscientist)

Thus you pretty much die every second.

 

[The Void]

Immortality is a curse, a nightmare. I better not think about it.