(October 26, 2019 at 9:44 am)mordant Wrote: You have a commendable positive outlook about the possibilities and I suppose I appear way more negative than I actually am in real life by comparison. Which of us is likely to be correct? The truth is probably somewhere in between, as life tends to be both better and worse than we expect. That is why I allow that it would be prudent of me to accept biological immortality if offered to me, because I should explore the possibilities. Even if I might do so with less expectation of particular outcomes than you, I acknowledge that my conceptual framing and experience are inadequate to make a confident pronouncement that it would be a waste of time.
Yes, I have noticed the differences in outlooks. And perhaps mine are motivated by the stage of life I'm in, my 20's. Its a stage where I'm being asked to choose the path I want to take, and surrender all others. Not just because society seems to prefer one-trick ponys, but because mastering any one task comes at the cost of all others. For example, becoming an athlete takes time and work which cannot be invested into becoming a musician. Doing a little of everything feels as unsatisfactory as choosing just one thing and mastering it. So I'm forced to choose who I want to be, and make all other things into hobbies; but I can easily envision a life where I made one of my hobbies my main career, and the career path I'm taking now into a hobbie.
So perhaps eternity is too long, I don't know. What I do know is that one life doesn't feel like enough.
