genetic engineering? ai singularity perhaps? How do you intend to live forever?

  • Fedditor385@lemmy.world
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    Look at the world around you, do you really want to live forever? The more time passes the more death seams like retirement from life.

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    Fuck forever, just let my upcoming prostate biopsy be negative. I’m retiring and I have shit to do that doesn’t involve sitting in front of the TV wearing a diaper.

  • Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Shrug. The closest that real biology allows. I already have children so at least some sense a part of me will live on for at least the duration of their lives.

    Past that I’m with most people on here that immortality sounds horrific. Now I can get behind extended life span especially if medicine and society provide for being actually healthy and able to enjoy it. Just not forever.

  • -☆-@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I’d like to learn enough biology to cure aging and cancer. But first the politics need to change, so that’s my priority.

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    8 hours ago

    I have no intention of trying to be immortal, just try to live a long time through healthy eating and exercise

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    7 hours ago

    Are you a billionaire? Cause unless you are it’s like a child wanting to be Batman when they grow up.

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    11 hours ago

    When my time comes I will rid myself of the delusion that I was anything other than a piece of the universe experiencing itself.

    Maybe something fundamental of me will return. If the Buddhists are right I have a suspicion of what I am learning in this life and what I will need to learn in the next. But otherwise I will simply no longer distinct at further points in time, just as there are prior ones I was not distinct at.

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    11 hours ago

    If we’re speaking how I’d like to do that if possible, just put my brain into a robot body. Or just upload my whole mind into a robot.

    If we’re talking realistically:

    guess I'll die

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
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    11 hours ago

    Realistically I’ll probably die in a heat wave.

    Just for fun, if a like-minded individual has any possibility to physically preserve my brain (not a copy!) in their makeshift lab I’d probably roll the dice on that one if things were half-clean. Yeah, I know, the odds aren’t good.

    In terms of cyborg stuff, I would want something more organic than popsci typically shows though. Like having a semi-synthetic body that is its own multi-cellular, symbiotic organism. That can further connect to other things (like to the myconet to exchange resources).

    I would not want to live forever, though. If I did anything like that I’d probably live isolated for a while and then retire into my own brain.