Mortality

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Of course we are going with the stock "happy marriage, happy life" formula.
What about those who did not have a happy life? Just saying "oh OK, you live forever so you can get one if you would like" does not always work and it wont enable them to get one.

It's not like being mortal and being sisyphus are the only possibilities.

I feel like people invent problems here.

And anyway, fantastic medicine, body part regeneration, stopping the aging process are all conceivable (at least we don't know any inherent obstacles). Magical immortality is not, and is thus much less interesting.

[a completely inoffensive name]

And anyway, fantastic medicine, body part regeneration, stopping the aging process are all conceivable (at least we don't know any inherent obstacles). Magical immortality is not, and is thus much less interesting.

A body is a biological machine. Once we have mastered learning about how it works on every level we can (will) redesign it into perfection. Sooner or later immortality will be achieved. Not by magic, but by slow progression. We will make a list of all the potential causes of death and start crossing them off. First will be aging, then at some point we will master the complexities of the immune system to be able to handle any sort of threatening bacteria, etc... Of course there will always be death from non natural causes like getting hit by a bus or getting shot. But stem cell regeneration will make all but the most fatal (like getting shot in the face 6 times) injuries treatable as well.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

A body is a biological machine. Once we have mastered learning about how it works on every level we can (will) redesign it into perfection. Sooner or later immortality will be achieved. Not by magic, but by slow progression. We will make a list of all the potential causes of death and start crossing them off. First will be aging, then at some point we will master the complexities of the immune system to be able to handle any sort of threatening bacteria, etc... Of course there will always be death from non natural causes like getting hit by a bus or getting shot. But stem cell regeneration will make all but the most fatal (like getting shot in the face 6 times) injuries treatable as well.

mmm, I have no doubts about the human body. But it seems possible that the brain can't regenerate and can't be fixed without destroying the memories etc. Perhaps they could genetically engineer people to have brains that survive indefinitely.

Of course, people talk about supercomputers that are copies of the brain. And they could be immortal, but that's cloning really.

[a completely inoffensive name]

mmm, I have no doubts about the human body. But it seems possible that the brain can't regenerate and can't be fixed without destroying the memories etc. Perhaps they could genetically engineer people to have brains that survive indefinitely.

Of course, people talk about supercomputers that are copies of the brain. And they could be immortal, but that's cloning really.

I think within 25 years we will have discovered what happens to the brain on a physical level when it experiences dementia or Alzheimer's disease and at that point depending on if the cause of the disease is something physical or if it is vice versa we might be able to stop that and reverse it as well.

[Cute Wolf]

2438 years ago, I ate that damn Immortal mushroom presented to my court, 2395 years ago, due to my age being thrown back to 20's, I fake my own death and run to the countryside as a wandering scholar, 2124 years ago, I change proffesion to a wandering doctor, but got jailed because some coward afraid to have brain surgery, I escape soon, and head west, 2015 years ago, I follow a bright moving star with 2 friends, and meet baby Jesus, 1985 years ago, I meet him again and he said "just try to enjoy it, life is sacred, if you end that without a really good reason, you'll end in hell", from there, I wander to the egyptian desert and become solitary monk until 1526 years ago. I decide to do something and advise Attila to kick the corrupt Romans, but poison him afterwards so he got endless nosebleed, because he was too cruel. I then bored and sail to south america, designing some silly pyramids because I miss my ol desert home, but political wars soon broke and I was forced to sail to pacific islands. I design some statues with big heads for lulz, but soon bored after 300 years, so 638 years ago, I back to my homeland and facepalming myself because my former empire got stagnant, so, after some failed works as imperial advisors, I decide to sleep for 520 years, only wake up occasionally for eatin somethin. And when those stupid republicans rebelled, I go south and hide myself in Dutch East Indies... You know all the rest, so I devote my life to play games because I was bored with anything else.