Question for the anti's.......?

[Alex K]

Sooo...I'm obviously gonna be the odd one out here, and maybe it's just because I'm only 28 years old, but I rather enjoy existing and am not particularly comfortable with the prospect of not existing any more, so yeah, given the option to live in this Universe indefinitely, I probably would. I imagine once things start winding down toward the Heat Death of the Universe, I'd start running out of things to do and might want to cut it off at some point, but barring that I wouldn't mind a life span that would grant me the opportunity to see reality and this planet grow and change over many, many human lifetimes. Maybe that opinion will change once I'm older, but right now I basically don't see a circumstance where I would be "ready" to die. I pretty much like living.


Incidentally, science recently discovered a form of injectable oxygen that can keep brains oxygenated without the need for respiration, bringing the potential for indefinite brain preservation and viable cryo technology much, much closer. Personally, I think that's kind of exciting.

I'm with you in principle. I could, just off the top of my head, find stuff to do for a 1000 years or 10000, without putting any serious thought into it, and I'm not exaggerating. I guess if I had 1000 years to think about it, I'd find stuff to do for the next 10000 years. Of course, eternity is very long, and I don't know what that would entail. In particular, the question arises whether I would have my usual brain capacity, or as much as I want? And if I had more brain capacity so I could actually get something out of all that time, would the resulting person even still be me in any sense of the word, and if I didn't get more brain capacity, after 10000 years probably all memory of my life now would be gone, and it wouldn't make a difference whether my old me died or was simply forgotten.