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There are a lot of things that can cause chronic pain without threatening your life. We would have to learn how fix all of these non-life-threatening things in
by beloch 15y ago
There are a lot of things that can cause chronic pain without threatening your life. We would have to learn how fix all of these non-life-threatening things in addition to what causes death, or everlasting life will lead to everlasting pain with absolute certainty.
- lsparrish 15y agoYou seem to be omitting reversible cryopreservation from the scenario. All you would need to do is freeze yourself until a cure is found for whatever is causing you pain. But this seems like a non-likely thought experiment scenario anyway -- I can't imagine being able to regenerate body parts and prevent aging from being lethal, yet being unable to comprehensively prevent pain.
- ks 15y agoI think this can be broken down into two problems. 1. Preventing / curing all causes of pain. 2. Changing how the body responds to pain. I think problem number 2 is easier to solve. The human body is a biological machine and I hink we will find better ways of handling pain than today. An example could be an implant in the brain that simply blocks the impulses.