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Offline moot

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Living forever
« on: May 05, 2009, 06:15:18 PM »
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thanks but no thanks - I'll take my DNR any day over "living" forever..
Why?
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Offline Saurdaukar

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Re: Living forever
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2009, 06:20:22 PM »
No idea.  I'd rather live forever.

One in the fist, two in the bush, etc.
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2009, 06:58:03 PM »
Are we talking biological immortality or life after death?
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2009, 07:24:47 PM »
What's DNR?
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2009, 07:37:13 PM »
Take a digital ISO snapshot of the human brain and virtually animate it.  Can virtual consciousness exist?
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2009, 07:41:40 PM »
Quote from: MachFly on May 05, 2009, 07:24:47 PM
What's DNR?

Depending on the context, it can stand either for Department of Natural Resources or Do Not Resuscitate.

In this case, I'm betting he's talking about the latter.
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2009, 09:46:57 PM »
Quote from: sluggish on May 05, 2009, 07:37:13 PM
Take a digital ISO snapshot of the human brain and virtually animate it.  Can virtual consciousness exist?
Down to quantum resolution?
Quote from: Die Hard on May 05, 2009, 06:58:03 PM
Are we talking biological immortality or life after death?
Curing aging.
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2009, 08:26:04 AM »
Quote from: MachFly on May 05, 2009, 07:24:47 PM
What's DNR?


Do Not Resuscitate


Doh, a little late I see
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2009, 08:37:00 AM »
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Curing aging.

And you called me a crackpot for wanting to live naturaly as an animal.

Do you have any idea how many births and deaths there are globaly every minute? You don't 'cure' age. You would destroy life.

Are you scared of death, moot?
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2009, 08:50:05 AM »
Quote from: Simaril on May 05, 2009, 07:41:40 PM
Depending on the context, it can stand either for Department of Natural Resources or Do Not Resuscitate.

In this case, I'm betting he's talking about the latter.

In your avatar: Chamberlain?

I can't stand the life I'm living NOW, wtf would I want to live forever for?
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2009, 09:00:49 AM »
one go around is enough for me...
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2009, 09:03:23 AM »
Is that the extent of your argument, batfink?
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2009, 09:03:59 AM »
Quote from: moot on May 05, 2009, 09:46:57 PM
Curing aging.

That would be nice, really nice, but it wouldn't mean living forever. We'd still die from decease or trauma (accidental or not). Without a naturally limited lifespan the human population would quickly outgrow this Earth and we would have to control the population with extraordinary means. I don't think it is justifiable to become biologically "immortal" at the expense of other people's lives. If "curing aging" is technologically feasible I certainly don't think humanity is ready for it.

Btw. wasn't it technological immortality that doomed the Cylons? ;)
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2009, 09:06:05 AM »
It's just a title that puts the subject in a nutshell.
Quote from: Die Hard on May 06, 2009, 09:03:59 AM
We'd still die from decease or trauma (accidental or not).
Ok. Just like now. No biggie.

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Without a naturally limited lifespan the human population would quickly outgrow this Earth and we would have to control the population with extraordinary means.
Why would it have to be extraordinary?  Why would the human population inevitably outgrow the earth?

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I don't think it is justifiable to become biologically "immortal" at the expense of other people's lives.
Why is it at the expense of other people's lives?

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If "curing aging" is technologically feasible I certainly don't think humanity is ready for it.
Why not?
Quote from: Die Hard on May 06, 2009, 09:03:59 AM
Btw. wasn't it technological immortality that doomed the Cylons? ;)
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Re: Living forever
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2009, 09:19:04 AM »
As a person who dealt with family needing machines to live.  I would like a dnr in certain instances.  It is not life if you have no brain funtion and need a machine to keep you going.
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