The pursuit of technological immortality

Is there any reason not to?

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[endthedisease]

Immortality will be obtained but I don't think we will see it for several hundred years. Recording someones genome and putting it on a harddrive for future replication is probably just around the corner but that isn't the same thing as immortality.

You will also need some way to have a memory recording device implanted in the brain from birth thus giving us a way to transfer memories and experiences to a new body. The problem will come when you have multiple lives and the HD becomes full.

[Shinjeez]

@stuchly1 human is already a machine you fool. "too good i'll be dead before that happens" Masochist much?

[watergaia]

i have been given knowledge of my immortal soul, but it's good that god has taken this information away from some people, because otherwise people wouldn't try so hard to attain physical immortality.

we were all immortal once, that's why humans miss it. just like we have created cellphones because we miss our lost ability of telepathy, we will probably create immortality too.

[TheCaptainjuicy]

If i die, i want my corpse to be expirememted for technological immortality

[Maafa1619]

@JustSiouxMe What makes you think that humans are evolving? Technology and especially the abomination of reproductive medicine (which allows people whose genes have be deselected by evolution to breed) have, for the moment, halted any human evolution. If anything, we're devolving.

[Maafa1619]

@JustSiouxMe Not if she was the first. Men are haunted by certain women, and immortality wouldn't change that. Just ask Dracula.

[Chayraz2]

@endthedisease transfer to a bigger hard drive?

[Unit63]

Couple of points.. If the systems for extending life are not available to everyone equally, then you have another avenue of conflict, exercise of power and profit. There will be those who become obsessed with the vanity of it all like plastic surgery.

Are we assuming that an immunity to disease comes with this? You'd need a type of transporter with Photoshop controls as long as you weren't saved in jpeg. My major concern is quality of life. How employable would you be after 120?

[Mystery207]

@Mystery207 BTW What Ivy league school do you belong to?

[Mystery207]

Nice argument but you give to much credence to our technology. We live in world guided and controlled by practical obsolescence so extending human life for the heard is not logical at this point in human development the only thing that is supported is technologically advanced is death. You remind me of a sorcerer in Carlos Castaneda books is these type of questioning a form of a controlled folly? But to further elucidate your point they are doing head transplants only for the elite.

[socialdeviant13]

lol, i love the 80's bubble look and the music in the background^^

[Valca000]

@endthedisease the problem I see in transferring your memory into a hardware is with continuity... although you ensure that your identity is preserved, your concision will not follow through. You will cease to be conscious. Think about that movie "the Prestige"

I'm also perplexed by this and a answer would be appreciated.

[FireSign27]

Also, I tihnk its very shitty for anyone to want to look into immortality before many widespread issues. Even if it's obtained in several hundreds of years, people would have to claim to be immortal in some way, it will all be governed. It'll just be another barrier between the well-off and the not so well-off. It'll come down to only productive/meaningful/authorit­atively important people being immortal, and those people will be a vast minority. Immortality would screw common-folk over.

[FireSign27]

No one wants to die, fair enough. But then, why live forever? Dieing from natural causes isn't a problem that needs a fix. Theres worse problems in the world than dieing from old age. And i find it scary that if immortality is ever researched, it will be done so by authoritative people, the very same people who would rather indulge themselves than to solve real and current problems...

[GrooveInYourOwnTime]

Death is a taboo. Fear of death created religions and majority of complexes. Now what's next?

[madman13669]

@endthedisease To the cloud :)

[Vortex289]

@XXTheMoleXX Because of the lack of fuel. There is fossil fuel on our planet, but when that is used to go out in space then the fuel, all it's exhausts, is simply vanishing from the planet and will never be replaced again. Electricy, quite efficient in atmosphere, will not be of that much use engine-wise in space. If we were to come up with a way of going faster than the speed of light and if we could find another planet with organic lifeforms them sure, why not space? But until then...

[Vortex289]

When you have seven bilion people and these people do not die of age or decease, while still eating and drinking, they are taking and taking from the world without giving back more than 20% of the cumulative nutrition that they require. At least not within the nearest two to three hundred years. The world would not be able to support immortal people, whether they are possible or not. It's an ecological issue as much as a medical one.

[XXTheMoleXX]

Rather than discouraging a growth in population, why not encourage an expansion in space exploration and adaptability? Space is certainly an area vacant enough for us to occupy at our fullest capability, so why are people limiting themselves to such a small planet? If a small portion of humanity could make it possible to send an unmanned probe to Mars six years ago, imagine what the mass collective of humanity can achieve now, let alone twenty-five to fifty years from now.

[Thiswaybefore]

Life, especially human life, is highly entropic and thats why Nature insists on killing us all.

[hallowbe]

Great argument as always.

[Lemurius]

Actually there is a possible reason for it not being possible: consciousness may not be a abstract thing that's separated from our body, but actually the result of the whole human body system, not only the mind, memory, self-awareness and rationality; but also our body experience, and the whole body memory.

Even if you could "transport" your consciousness from your body, there's no guarantee that it would "work" the same way without it. There's no guarantee you would still be you.

[CyberFenix000]

you are always playing such beautiful music on the background...

[CameronsTechChannel]

I enjoyed listing to your argument, many thanks for posting this video.

[Habegger23]

I really enjoyed this video, im glad that i came across you.

[CherylJosie]

Actually China's one-child policy did require forced abortion so your claim that no one has been forced to die as part of population control is actually wrong, unless you argue that a fetus is not a person... something that I am reluctant to do even though I do support a woman's right to choose.

[pcrvg0808]

It`s good to see you still have an imagination .