(May 1, 2015 at 5:07 pm)AdamLOV Wrote: Why would anyone want to prolong human life? Why go through such a hassle just to avoid something as painless as death? In the view of Epicurus, death is something to be embraced, for it puts an end to suffering and pain. Transhumanism seems like just another way of trying to avoid or sublimate the threatening, but, for better or worse, "unavoidable shipwreck" (Schopenhauer) that nonexistence poses.
Hi, AdamLOV. When the nanotechnology becomes sophisticated enough, humanity at that stage will be able to upload the computer programs of their minds onto artificial computer hardware, of which will have far vaster computational resources than the wet-computer of the human brain. Such posthumans will be superintelligent immortal gods. The environments which they will interact with the most will be simulated environments which they find to be pleasurable: in other words, Heaven. For much more on this, see my aforecited article "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything".
Author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761;
and "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", SSRN, Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, which details Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE).
and "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", SSRN, Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, which details Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE).
