(August 26, 2015 at 11:46 am)Pyrrho Wrote: Your idea of "rewarding experience" reminds me of David Hume's ethical theory, which can be found in his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
A very condensed discussion is at these links:
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#35
There is more discussion of it in that thread.
However, you might find it easier to start with Epicurus instead, though his position is less rigorous. But it has the advantage of being easier to understand.
http://www.epicurus.net
As for suicide, here are three essays on the topic that I think are worth reading:
ESSAY IX: OF SUICIDE1
Letter 70
Letter 77
Regarding your idea of bringing back people from the dead and drugging them to feel high (which is what "eternal bliss" would be), that is rather fanciful. I doubt we are going to be raising the dead. Of course, it somewhat depends on what, exactly, one means by "dead," as one's heart can stop beating and it can sometimes be restarted, so if you were to imagine that "dead" just means that one's heart stopped beating, then one could raise the "dead" at least occasionally. But if they are well and truly dead, rotted in the grave, then no, it is just a fictional fantasy.
As an aside, you might want to work on your essay writing skills, as much of the reaction you are getting seems due to that rather than the actual content of your post.
Well, I have two questions here:
1.) Has it ever been tested whether there is a scientific version of good and bad (what I've explained above)? If not, then it's no wonder there is no supporting evidence for my theory. If my theory could be tested, then there just might be supporting evidence for it.
2.) I'm thinking there might be a way to resurrect people back to life after they have completely died and rotted away. All of their atoms and particles that made them alive in the first place are all still there. They are all just scattered about across the world in different locations. So what we would need to do here is to create a supercomputer that has a connection to all atoms and particles of this world. From there, we would create a template of a human life form that can combine all atoms and particles in all possible ways to create all possible different types of people. We would then initiate this program which would create all possible different types of people and would bring people such as me back to life.
