are we immortal

[Lao Tzu]

a so.

i was thinking of this today. are we the first generation (those of us in our 20's) to live forever? the way i see it there are at least 4 ways to develop immortality.

1. transfer personality to computers
2. scientists 'create' an afterlife
3. drugs prevent aging
4. the personalities of the dead are revived, even if their bodies are decomposed, using technologies that aren't discovered yet.


anyone have any opinions? no more having to rely on unreliable religions for info on where our personalities will go. we can create our own heaven & hell.

 

[Warik]

I don't know about immortality, but I'd sure like to be cryogenically frozen for 500-1,000 years and then be thawed into a better world... although it would suck if everyone had the same idea and we all unfroze to find ourselves stuck in the same shitty world 1,000 years later. =(

-Warik

 

[HappyScrappy]

if I learned nothing else from vanilla sky, it was that you will have weird nightmares if you are in that state.
that and penelope cruz has a really cute accent.
and the soundtrack rules.

nothing else. that's all I learned.

 

[cure]

I don't know about immortality, but I'd sure like to be cryogenically frozen for 500-1,000 years and then be thawed into a better world... although it would suck if everyone had the same idea and we all unfroze to find ourselves stuck in the same shitty world 1,000 years later. =(

-Warik

It wouldn't be a shitty world because Walt Disney would still be around also.

 

[Warik]

It wouldn't be a shitty world because Walt Disney would still be around also.

True... and so would my He-Man & Star Trek collection.

-Warik

 

[Stryc-9]

I don't think I would want to live forever - at least not in this world....

In any event - I was reading an article the other day about the persistence of memory - and how, even if modern science could allow a person to live for three hundred years, our memory bank would eventually "overwrite" itself....and it would be like having amnesia after a while....making the extension of life irrelevant - since we would only be able to remember a specific amount of memories at any one point....

...then I became bored with the article and watched the Simpsons...it was the one where Homer joins the Stonecutters...

 

[68GT350]

No. Any more questions?

 

[Lao Tzu]

No. Any more questions?

wass your mom mad that i punched her in the face cause she wanted $2 above the agreed upon price.

 

[Kryp2o]

if I learned nothing else from vanilla sky, it was that you will have weird nightmares if you are in that state.
that and penelope cruz has a really cute accent.
and the soundtrack rules.

nothing else. that's all I learned.

I just learned that you learned the soundtrack rules. I will have to go see if this learning was worth it.

 

[Kahn]

I live in a small town and I've done all kinds of stupid shit. Quite a few of the locals look at me like I'm an immortal. I've lived through so many should have been dead accidents, they believe me when I say you have to take my head to kill me. I've recovered from so much broken shit that I am not afraid of shit and I have to keep lifting just to avoid being a paralyzed old fucker from arthritis. Sucks to be me in the morning but you'd never know it by afternoon.hehehehe, bring it fucker

 

[Latimer]

Immortality through our offspring.