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Hm, death as a practical solution.

• magicsmoke 6y ago
  When you think about it, that's the direction most lifeforms on the planet take. Instead of trying ensure the survival of their genetic information by being immortal, they make younger copies of themselves with less degradation before dying. Immortality = eventual decline as more and more parts fail and can't be repaired.
  • TeMPOraL 6y ago
    It's a path evolution took staring from the first replicator; the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach is built into the core of the evolutionary process. That doesn't mean the only solution is to burn the whole thing down and start anew. Partial replacement while preserving the whole could make sense, but it wasn't an option easily accessible to evolution. Then again, the life's approach isn't all bad on the lowest level. From our, human, point of view, the issue is that at some point, evolution invented brains and consciousness, and that information is more interesting than DNA, and it gets discarded instead of being preserved.