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Speak for yourself. I prefer to live forever (assuming healthy), thank you.
by bboygravity 2y ago
Speak for yourself. I prefer to live forever (assuming healthy), thank you.
- h0l0cube 2y ago> (assuming healthy) Moments ago, I, too, used to think this way, but then I glanced around at the comments here, and I realize that even if immortal, we'd still have to suffer each other, and that simply just can't go on forever.
- rbanffy 2y agoWith infinite time, we can simply move to other planets or star systems.
- h0l0cube 2y agoHeat death aside, with ‘infinite time’ and probably long before we arrive to affordable interplanetary travel of our squishy forms, we will have found a way to upload ourselves to silicon (or whatever substrate computes the best), where we can do whatever we want on our own little isolated wafers – if that’s what we wanted.
- rbanffy 2y agoMaybe, but then we need to decide if an upload is you. What matters to me is the continuity of my perception of self. If I spawn a dozen versions of me, I still perceive them as other individuals.
- h0l0cube 2y agoIt would involve a transitory step of a direct human computer interface. But tbf, there’s no continuity of perception when you go to sleep and wake up. We have no idea how consciousness works, or whether there really is something as multiple consciousness as opposed to, say, a single thread that traverses all streams consciousness in whatever order
- agumonkey 2y agoGranted you can also maintain your close circle.