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Don't really get most of this stuff, but I've heard it over and over again that we kinda go through our bodies in a 7 year period, so when we eat, move around etc, we "shed" the old us with new. If that's true, then it seems plausable to find some solution so we don't age and die. If we can have that process going, without the decay.

Once everyone on this planet dies we reincarnate as another person on another earth in a parallel universe. You will be reborn the same time you die (day, month, year) and retain all the knowledge you've acquired up to your death. You will be the only person on this planet that has this fortunate circumstance; everyone else will get their own planet.

Living forever in one form would be so boring, and if proton decay exists might not be possible at all.

Everyone saying immortality would be boring are probably just boring people.

The article is lol retarded, 10 years...good luck rusky. Probably won't even come close to stage one in my life time.

Actually most futurists predictions are about the same. Shit starts to get real in 10 years

its not that living forever is boring, its more that living forever AS A ROBOT might be boring. No fucking, no eating, no drinking, no sports, etc. The only thing we might be able to do is like, play games...

Also i have a weird question... what if they transfered our consciousness into a robot (not the brain). would we still be "alive". Guess not...

I am not really interested in being a robot or a hologram forever, living forever in my actual body I would want to do but like how enjoyable can sex be as a hologram or a robot.

We will see in 10 years but my money is on this won't be happening. These predictions get made all the time and rarely materialise. I know in the late 80's/early 90's that by now everyone was meant to be disease free, living on the moon and getting around in their flying cars. Didn't happen. I'd argue that even a hover board is easier to invent than this shit and that hasn't happened either. No doubt these sorts of predictions have been going on through time with the usual 'oh but now we really are close or have the technology'.

‘I understand these are some very big challenges for scientists,’ Itskov says. ‘But I believe in something you call ‘The American Dream.’ If you put all your energy and time into something, you can make it a reality.

Sounds legit. BRB going to put all my time and energy into time travel or a faster than light speed ship.

At first i thought Tutz made this, surprised to see longple.
Guy is just scamming billionaires to freeroll life.
Tl:dr - not happening.

On July 20 2012 08:55 dogmeat wrote: Show nested quote + On July 20 2012 08:44 Fudyann wrote: not having to die if you don't want to would be super awesome.

actually no it would fuck up the world

not sure what to belive really, dont think any of us have much of a clue really science wise

but its pretty interesting and scary stuff imo

On July 20 2012 09:52 Loco wrote: The real question is, do these people really like life that much or are they afraid of dying that much?

Im sure most people who want immortality is because they are afraid of dying. But if u are in science, chances are you are doing it as something to archive. IMO I'm not afraid of dying but am heavily pro and think that immortality is inevitable at one point unless human species extinctns or degresses . The later I actually think might actually be true

research something about monkey head transplant.. guy was trying to switch heads from one monkey to the next, it was still paralyzed, but if they find a way to cure paralysis then they can have people living multiple lifetimes.

I think this idea stems from fallout where the robots walking around with a human brain shooting lasers

On July 20 2012 19:08 casinocasino wrote: research something about monkey head transplant.. guy was trying to switch heads from one monkey to the next, it was still paralyzed, but if they find a way to cure paralysis then they can have people living multiple lifetimes. I think this idea stems from fallout where the robots walking around with a human brain shooting lasers

First done 40 years ago and hasn't really made progress other than to keep blood going to it.

Forget this with transferring the consciousness, neuroscientists are ages away from solving it, like they are in the "stone age". Let's say in 100 years rich people will be able to pay for stopping aging/becoming a robot, so what? You must beat evolution, because in 10k years you'll feel like a retard. If you manage to do this, you'll still have to be sick bloody patient for the time when brain will be solved and you will be able to acquire new senses like sensing electricity or whatever you desire.

On July 20 2012 07:46 Achoo wrote: I'd rather be dead than to be immortal.

Shit life?

Damn I'd take immortality ezpz.

the idea that immortality, at least some form of it, might be achievable through our lifetime, is super interesting. but also scary - the implications for our society are impossible to predict.

Nobody wants to die, but for the entirety of human civilization, we have, and everything is organized in accordance with this fact. People oftentimes motivate themselves explicitly with statements such as YOLO - but that's not really appliccable if that life lasts a million years. So then, say you're kinda getting like, the potential benefits of less hastyness (in accordance to all fantasy lore ever, the immortality of the elves is the main component in what makes them different and superior to mankind!!), but the negative(?) of lacking motivation/increased hedonism. And then you're getting the temporary extra-motivational boost to people who want to pursue quick sudden wealth to be among the first to be granted immortality, and stuff is even more cutthroat for a while. or whatever - predicting how stuff is gonna turn out is prolly harder than predicting when or if the technological singularity occurs.

The main potential problem though, is how immortality will initially be granted to the people who already control the power-structures of the world. The powerful often want to maintain the status quo (which is understandable), and they also have the power to do so. The fact is, most really powerful are toppled by their death. If that doesn't happen, what then? If immortality was achieved for the top dogs of society 300 years ago, would any of the waves of revolutions have happened? Slavery? Women's suffrage? Or universal male suffrage? It's like, immortality could potentially advance "some" individuals or groups of individuals to a point where they're essentially part of a higher consciousness than man or whatnot, but I think it'd be compleetely disruptive for well, social mobility.

You're also not gonna get any Buffets who accumulate vast vast wealth and who then donate 99% of it at death.