Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by anigbrowl on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:47AM
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Pff, no thanks. 'Neverending story' is a concept for children, same as 'the song that never ends' and other cartoons of infinity. In reality I get as much enjoyment from finishing a book as starting it. I'm not rejecting the idea of technological progress, I'm rejecting the whole idea of wanting to live indefinitely. Shrinking from death misses the point of life.
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Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by CryptoPunk on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:26AM
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There is nothing meaningful in death. It's a meaningless tragedy. If and when we can give humans the option of living forever, you're always free to not avail yourself of that option, if that is your preference.
Sure there is, the fact of its apparent permanence provides and ordering criteria for a value system. Are you saying that there's nothing - nothing at all - for which you'd be willing to sacrifice your life?
Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by CryptoPunk on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:54PM
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You can have an ordering criteria without having lifespans limited to 7-8 decades. Time still matters in the absence of death from aging.
You can, and you'll also end up with a gerontocracy. I see you don't address the sacrifice question so I guess that means there isn't any such thing. Perhaps that will change in the future.
Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by CryptoPunk on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:56AM
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Issues like gerontocracy will be completely irrelevant when we're spanning the solar system, and especially when we're sending colony ships to star systems light years away.