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It's not outside the realm of possibility that many humans alive today will have a chance to live forever.
by CryptoPunk 7y ago
It's not outside the realm of possibility that many humans alive today will have a chance to live forever.
- Koshkin 7y agoIn theory, anything is possible, sure. Problem is, in order to live forever one must be indestructible. This is because for the modern human the mean time to the death in an accident is way below one thousand years. (Indestructibility would bring with it its own issues.)
- CryptoPunk 7y agoEffective indestructibility can emerge through sheltering the human body and interacting with the outside world through avatars, e.g. robots etc and extensive body monitoring to provide rapid responses in case of a medical emergency. With the exponential growth rate in technological sophistication, we could, in the forseeable future, have levels of personal safety and medical care that are many orders of magnitude greater than they are now. If the humans alive today make it to the point where the average life expectancy is pushed to, say, 1000 years, then they stand a decent chance of living to see technology advance to levels that provide extreme (e.g. billions of years) life extension.