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crocodile deathroll · 01-27-2003, 06:18 PM

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Originally posted by Scottyman
I'd much rather be a little bored than a little NONEXISTENT!

Who gives a toss, you will never be the slightest bit aware of your condition.

Autonemesis · 01-27-2003, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Scottyman
I think living in a flesh and bone body for many thousands of years would be an ordeal but to live for an eternity as pure thought in a virtual universe, now that would be salvation. You could always take a vacation inside someones body if you wanted to have the experience of a flesh and bone existence again!

Or you could just write a subroutine to simulate the input-output feedback loop. Data is data.

Autonemesis · 01-27-2003, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by crocodile deathroll
Who gives a toss, you will never be the slightest bit aware of your condition.

Non-existence is a "condition?" Sounds like Monty Python.

"I got better!"

Kuu · 01-27-2003, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by Ipecac
I find it odd that people could imagine being bored after hundreds or thousands of years when you consider how vast the universe is. I don't think many people really grasp how large the universe is. Hell, I don't think I can really grasp it. Even with a thousand year lifespan I don't think I'd be able to read every book.

If we are able to extend our lifespans that dramatically, surely successful cryonics isn't far. With cryonics, sublight star travel isn't such an obstacle.

My worst nightmare would be being given immortality and outliving the rest of Mankind. What if Man doesn't live long to make it out of the Solar System and I have to sit on this rock in space all alone, my only hope that aliens MIGHT come?

And how long would it take for the books to turn to dust? Then I would have nothing to read as well.

Immortality has many potential hazards such as these. Give my a long life, yes, but not immortality.

Autonemesis · 01-27-2003, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by Kuu
And how long would it take for the books to turn to dust? Then I would have nothing to read as well.

Immortality has many potential hazards such as these. Give my a long life, yes, but not immortality.

As long as I can still jerk off, I'll be fine.

crocodile deathroll · 01-27-2003, 08:07 PM

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Originally posted by Kind Bud
Non-existence is a "condition?" Sounds like Monty Python.

"I got better!"

When you are dead then you have subjectively never been born at all in the first place.

Scottyman · 01-27-2003, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by crocodile deathroll
Who gives a toss, you will never be the slightest bit aware of your condition.

Well, we haven't reached that point yet but.....I tend to think we'd probably be able to work out the sticky details.

Loren Pechtel · 01-27-2003, 10:56 PM

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Originally posted by Kuu
My worst nightmare would be being given immortality and outliving the rest of Mankind. What if Man doesn't live long to make it out of the Solar System and I have to sit on this rock in space all alone, my only hope that aliens MIGHT come?

And how long would it take for the books to turn to dust? Then I would have nothing to read as well.

Immortality has many potential hazards such as these. Give my a long life, yes, but not immortality.

If you are truly immortal, build a starship and go find the aliens. Orion will take you to the stars, albeit slowly. Daudelous (the h-bomb version of Orion) will get a few percent of lightspeed even.

Kuu · 01-28-2003, 12:19 AM

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Originally posted by Loren Pechtel
If you are truly immortal, build a starship and go find the aliens. Orion will take you to the stars, albeit slowly. Daudelous (the h-bomb version of Orion) will get a few percent of lightspeed even.

Since when would becoming immortal make me any more intelligent? You are suggesting that a woman who has trouble programming a video could actually build a starship?

No, if I am the only one left I am stuck on the rock.

Scottyman · 01-28-2003, 07:24 AM

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Originally posted by Kuu
Since when would becoming immortal make me any more intelligent? You are suggesting that a woman who has trouble programming a video could actually build a starship?

No, if I am the only one left I am stuck on the rock.

I don't think anyone would go alone. I envision a virtual community with millions of people in an electronic state. You would learn to do things over time that you couldn't do as a physical being and I think time as we measure it now would be irrelevant.

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