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I wonder if you would enjoy it as much as you imagine.

corobo 7y ago
Well if the comparison is existing vs not existing I definitely wouldn't enjoy the latter due to not existing.
sicariusnoctis 7y ago
Sure, why not? Then I could study all of mathematics, physics, computer science, or whatnot at my leisure! Right now, I can only experience the smallest of glimpses into incredibly interesting fields.
- TelmoMenezes 7y ago
  Ok, so you are assuming that you would be immortal and free to pursue intellectual endeavors forever. This implies that all of your problems would be solved. You would be forever chasing the dopamine hit of understanding more of the fields that interest you. Or you could just shoot heroin. Without mortality or problems to confront, all meaning would be lost. Math, heroin, sex, all the same. Consider the dissolution of meaning, and the fact that infinity is a very very long time.
  - magduf 7y ago
    It's weird how people like you somehow think that immortal people would somehow be immune to gunshots or speeding buses. In reality, you'd have at most 1000 years before you were the victim of some tragic accident or murder.
  - D-Coder 7y ago
    "Live forever" here, I think, mostly means "Live indefinitely" — NOT "Live until the heat-death of the universe." And if you get bored after 500 years, you can always opt out. I'd like to have the choice to see if I do like it.
duckymcduckface 7y ago
You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. If everyone is immortal it would be much more mundane than you'd expect, think more to the tune of "happy 679th mom" or "man remember that song from 179 years ago?"
- TelmoMenezes 7y ago
  > You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. No, that is not the reason for my comment. It seems clear to me, both by life experience and reading related research that humans require meaning to have lives worth living. This might be a hard pill to swallow, but I suspect that it is ultimately our mortality that gives our lives meaning. If there is nothing to strive for, then there is only pleasure seeking. Your life becomes an infinitely long hedonistic binge. Human beings were not designed to withstand hedonistic binges for too long without dark consequences (as in, dissolution of meaning, extreme depression, etc). I guess you could argue that with infinite time, you could figure out how to redesign yourself until you are comfortable with immortality. But are you still yourself by then? Or is this problem also already solved by... just dying?
Shutaru 7y ago
I honestly don't know if I would enjoy living forever, but I'd like to give it a try, just in case.

Well if the comparison is existing vs not existing I definitely wouldn't enjoy the latter due to not existing.

Sure, why not? Then I could study all of mathematics, physics, computer science, or whatnot at my leisure! Right now, I can only experience the smallest of glimpses into incredibly interesting fields.

TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Ok, so you are assuming that you would be immortal and free to pursue intellectual endeavors forever. This implies that all of your problems would be solved. You would be forever chasing the dopamine hit of understanding more of the fields that interest you. Or you could just shoot heroin. Without mortality or problems to confront, all meaning would be lost. Math, heroin, sex, all the same. Consider the dissolution of meaning, and the fact that infinity is a very very long time.
- magduf 7y ago
  It's weird how people like you somehow think that immortal people would somehow be immune to gunshots or speeding buses. In reality, you'd have at most 1000 years before you were the victim of some tragic accident or murder.
- D-Coder 7y ago
  "Live forever" here, I think, mostly means "Live indefinitely" — NOT "Live until the heat-death of the universe." And if you get bored after 500 years, you can always opt out. I'd like to have the choice to see if I do like it.

duckymcduckface 7y ago

You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. If everyone is immortal it would be much more mundane than you'd expect, think more to the tune of "happy 679th mom" or "man remember that song from 179 years ago?"

TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. No, that is not the reason for my comment. It seems clear to me, both by life experience and reading related research that humans require meaning to have lives worth living. This might be a hard pill to swallow, but I suspect that it is ultimately our mortality that gives our lives meaning. If there is nothing to strive for, then there is only pleasure seeking. Your life becomes an infinitely long hedonistic binge. Human beings were not designed to withstand hedonistic binges for too long without dark consequences (as in, dissolution of meaning, extreme depression, etc). I guess you could argue that with infinite time, you could figure out how to redesign yourself until you are comfortable with immortality. But are you still yourself by then? Or is this problem also already solved by... just dying?

Shutaru 7y ago

I honestly don't know if I would enjoy living forever, but I'd like to give it a try, just in case.