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Originally Posted by KellyC
So...you want to live long so you can "do more stuff" is that correct? If so, my question is: when will it be enough?
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Why does there have to be "enough"? In the true pursuit of knowledge, knowing everything is the only bounds. Since even in a thousand years one could not know EVERYTHING, then there is never enough knowledge, experience or interest.
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Originally Posted by Dudeburge
I'd get too boring to live forever. Sure you'd see a whole bunch of cool tech and what not in the future, but being so old and senile you wouldn't really want to use it anyway.
We've been put here for a determinte amount of time and I think it should stay that way.
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Well, part of this whole argument is that science and medicine (and the science of medicine) are allowing for people to live longer, happier, healthier lives as it is. Two hundred years ago, a human beings average life expectancy was only ~45-60 years. VERY few humans lived to be 100+. Now it's a fairly common occurance. As we learn to grow older, we learn to stay healthier longer. If you don't become senile until you're 160, then what's wrong with living to 175? I mean, in a comparitive fashion to today going senile at 80 and living to be 90?!
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Originally Posted by xim
If you all want your minds blown, get on your preferred p2p client and download "the acceleration of knowledge" by robert anton wilson. Its probably in 2 45 minute peices, it TOTALLY covers this whole topic.
When you get it, dont hesitate to post your opinions.
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How large is this file? Any chance you could email it to me? If so, I'd pe happy to post it on my website and link it for anyone interested.
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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
No. I do not want to live forever.
I prefer to be a permanent part of the universe in whatever form. I suppose it's some sort of carbon atom.
Being a carbon atom for all time (except for this brief moment in which there is an identity that is associated with what is called "me") is fine.
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I've noticed your quite the wordsmith. I'm happy to be a part of the universe in whatever fashion nature dictates. If I have the choice to retain this identity longer, and do with it what I shall, then I would take that option.