Immortality

[Khethil]

Originally Posted by Fairbanks

Suppose you were immortal. How would you know you were immortal?

The lack of death might be a large clue

[socrato]

Why do you all not want to be imortal! That would be awesome!! Living forever, think about it. Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not habing to worry about not being able to accomplish something in your life, because being immortal would mean that I could do anything eventualy. I'll be able to know what goes on 500 years from now.

What would get boring about life? There will always be new things to do.

[Psychonaut]

I would absolutely, undeniably choose immortality.

Ive always had immortality fantasies since i was a little kid. (16 now) as previously stated by socrato, you would be able to do anything eventually.

Always learning and trying new things with no rush in life, Its perfect. I've always believed that MY reason for living is to try new things, new location, new love, new state of mind.

Become an expert in every field, become an expert in life matters, become better, learn.

I've never felt too attached to any particular character in my life, i will outlive my mother my son will out live me etc.

but then again, I'm borderline psychopath.
would i be lonely?... not at all

[Holiday20310401]

I'm 17 and I would never choose immortality. I think that people should try to grasp how long that is, and realise that what time they've been able to conceive is not even an identifiable percentage to infinite time.

Besides, what has a beginning has an end. So immortality is impossible.

But I think that we can learn and try new things but eventually we would get tired of it all. Life will be so realized, so redundant, so jaded, so linear, that we would eventually go insane from lack of introspective progress relative to being young. Suicide becomes the selfless act due to losing perspective of one's self. And so, in our nature, we would eventually choose death.

If I had it my way I'd want to live for any amount of time but not be forced to live forever.

Socrato, Try to grasp the tens of hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of trillions of quadrillions of years. lol. Technically I think the universe itself isn't supposed to last for nearly that long, but you get the point, I hope.

[Khethil]

I saw this thread a few days ago; started to reply, then aborted it and it hasn't much left my head.

For me, I'd take it. I realize that there would inevitably come a point where the concept of eternity - in this form - would become unbearable and the existence would much more resemble a cage than any sort of freedom [1].

That being said...

... when I think of the thousands of places I could spend even just a few years at, the billions of people I could relaxingly take time to get to know, the knowledge I could gain, the possibilities of what a distant future might hold, it's all too alluring to pass up. What's more, thinking about a condition where "I couldn't die" brings with it a cacophony of experiences I could safely experience. My gosh... what possibilities!

Yea, I might very well come to regret it. But the draw to such potentials is far too tempting to pass up.





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[1] Despite its limited literary value, Anne Rice's 'Vampire Chronicles', throughout its several volumes, touched on this 'unbearable' nature of eternal life quite introspectively. Very nicely too I might add

[Fairbanks]

Originally Posted by Khethil

The lack of death might be a large clue

By that, anybody alive and reading this post right now is immortal right now.

[Fairbanks]

Originally Posted by Holiday20310401

what has a beginning has an end. So immortality is impossible.

Immortality is possible but not provable by theoretical reasoning. There are things in mathematics with a beginning and no end, and vice versa.

[boagie]

Originally Posted by Fairbanks

Suppose you were immortal. How would you know you were immortal?

Personally I would have great wrath to take out on the mortals.

[Holiday20310401]

Originally Posted by Fairbanks

Immortality is possible but not provable by theoretical reasoning. There are things in mathematics with a beginning and no end, and vice versa.

Unfortunately, mathematics relies on forces to be valid, and as such, forces are contained in dimension which could be said to be contained in another container. So the contents would not be immortal, thus an inevitable end to anything that has a beginning.

Even time, does not work in a way that you can literally reverse its flow. You can only go back in time relative to somebody else, by slowing down time relative to another's.

We can't reverse the causal flow.

[Fairbanks]

Originally Posted by Holiday20310401

the contents would not be immortal, thus an inevitable end to anything that has a beginning.

If immortality is necessary it may be assumed. So far it has not proved to be necessary to anything of objective nature, but something could come along any day.