Immortality
July 13, 2015 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2015 at 7:27 pm by Excited Penguin.)
The topic is death and/or immortality.
What do you think about death? Is it really inevitable? Do you think we'll ever surpass it? Do you think, maybe, it will happen during your lifetime[no pun intended]?
Would you choose to live forever, provided you stay (or get) young and carefree and everyone you know does too? Would you like to live throughout the millenia? What would you do with your eternity?
If you don't think that we'll ever surpass death[either by scientific means or in a religious mumbo jumbo way like reincarnation and heaven/hell], then how do you cope with the thought of it? How does it all make sense to you when[and if] you know that not even transmision of genes and memes is liable to withstand time[meaning that those same genes and memes will die one at a time, at least altogether with the minds that receive them]?
Or do you merely think of yourself as part of the universe and so pretend not to care all that much for your own conscience?
These are just suggestions. Sorry if they're tinted by my own subjectivity. Feel free to address this issue however you like.
I'll include a poll for good measure.
