First draft of Erebus lore

[Valkrionn]

Kipling was born in British India. Not South Africa <_<



The author I'm thinking of is a bit more famous than Kipling, I think. At least they would be in the circles that visit these boards.

Wooops. Yeah, I just put that phrase in google and he came up. Didn't check.

The two authors that helped inspire it are not south-african born. One of them IS british, the other was born in France and is Canadian-American.

Meh. I'm happy to pass on the mind-to- machine living forever. I'd be happy with clinical immortality.

As am I.

 

[Jabie]

Without a definite end, does existence lose it's meaning? Or, to put it a more poetic way, is death good for the soul?

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Or to put it in a more pragmatic way, who cares.

Personally I would like to be like the scions.

 

[azzedar]

Without a definite end, does existence lose it's meaning? Or, to put it a more poetic way, is death good for the soul?

i for my part would at least like to have the choice. if it drives me mad after a hundred years, shot me, but knowing youll be dead one day - turned to dust and ashes without anyone remembering your name - not good. its bitter irony that those individuals of history that have tried to damage us most are remembered the longest. dictators, serial killers, warmongers and the like. although there are of course also contrary examples, but history doesnt care for ethics.

 

[Viatos]

Without a definite end, does existence lose it's meaning? Or, to put it a more poetic way, is death good for the soul?

Experience is infinite. Biology loses its meaning, but not life itself. I'd go with the "god in his own world" option, personally, assuming the system was perfect and things like physical sensation were replicable. Except for the one problem I can't get past; consciousness doesn't transfer feasibly within the current limits of our technological imagination. Copying my brain isn't moving me, it's making another me and then killing me. If there was a workaround, or if the brain could be hooked up and immortalized, that'd be ideal.

Scion fleshcrafting is pretty cool, though. All the benefits of immortality and you don't even have to get bored of your own skin.

 

[KrugSmash]

Experience is infinite. Biology loses its meaning, but not life itself. I'd go with the "god in his own world" option, personally, assuming the system was perfect and things like physical sensation were replicable. Except for the one problem I can't get past; consciousness doesn't transfer feasibly within the current limits of our technological imagination. Copying my brain isn't moving me, it's making another me and then killing me. If there was a workaround, or if the brain could be hooked up and immortalized, that'd be ideal.

Scion fleshcrafting is pretty cool, though. All the benefits of immortality and you don't even have to get bored of your own skin.

I've been fantasizing about that a lot lately. Best I've come up with to achieve technological immortality without copying the consciousness, which I don't like either, would be the use of nanites to preserve but strengthen the already existent connections in the brain. Turn us into liquid terminators/SG Replicators directly, with no intermediary for the consciousness.

 

[Jabie]

Experience is infinite. Biology loses its meaning, but not life itself. I'd go with the "god in his own world" option, personally, assuming the system was perfect and things like physical sensation were replicable. Except for the one problem I can't get past; consciousness doesn't transfer feasibly within the current limits of our technological imagination. Copying my brain isn't moving me, it's making another me and then killing me. If there was a workaround, or if the brain could be hooked up and immortalized, that'd be ideal.

Reminds me of an old joke. Who wants to live to be ninety-eight?!? Ask a ninety-seven year old.

 

[arcticnightwolf]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death_p1.html

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[Valkrionn]

Heh, that question made me think of that.

Difference with that article: It presupposes that while YOU are immortal, everyone else is not.