Want to live forever?

[CurtSibling]

I know what you are getting at, but do you have 100% proof of 'eternal life'...

 

[Bartleby]

I'll take it with the opt-out clause.
I'm not gonna hold my breath though; someone once said I could have a million dollars now, or three million later, and I never saw a penny of that.

 

[El_Machinae]

There's a definition problem. You cannot live forever for the same reason you cannot count to infinity. You can merely have the potential to live forever.

So people are having a problem with the mental exericise. They try to think if they will have wanted to be alive for billions of years and then call that forever. It's not really the same thing.

I'd very much like to have the potential to live forever, and all that's required for that to occur is to have a continually reducing risk of death. Every time you perform an action that reduces your risk of death, you increase the probability that you'll never have to die.

The way I ask this is: if you want to be alive tomorrow, could you imagine wanting to live one more day (in 100 years) if your life was tolerable or improved from now?

All that's required to live forever is just not dying. It's actually that simple. The best way of not dying is to improve your odds of living.

(PS: immortal cyborg? Is that really the impression I give? I cannot imagine, fully, what changes are required to not die ... so ... whatever floats your boat!)

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

It is incredible how religious people are so trained to reject human greatness. 'Never aspire, never be proud, never do anything that raises you higher'. What a miserable way to exist...

I can't speak for all religious people, but my religion says that all human being have the potential to one day be gods. Sure, not everyone will achieve this, and no one will by their own efforts, but that is true of human immortality as well.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

@El_Mac: I understand exactly what you mean. "Forever" doesn't really exist; we can never be sure if we are really never going to die. No one can be truly immortal, just really, really old.

 

[El_Machinae]

Well, you can be technically immortal, but just never be sure, I'd think. As long as the 4D El_Mac never dies, I'm immortal right now. I just don't know it. Doesn't stop me from trying.