Personal immortality is irrelevant. True immortality lies in a grander sense - in species; in bloodline; in culture.
Our entire society is built around people living a specific period of time. Outliving that period means outliving friends and family, eventually children, your job (and perhaps even the industry in which your job exists), perhaps even your own body (after 500 years, I can imagine your knee joints would be ground down to pegs).
Really, we live long enough to have kids, and raise them to fend for themselves, eventually repeating the process. So long as we have the capacity to do this, we're immortal.
Neither is attainable. Death is as natural as life itself. It always has been and always will be. All living things live and die. better than 99% of the species to ever walk the earth have become extinct and so will humans at some point. The world is ever changing, it will change through it's life span, but it to will die, as will the sun.
So no, we will never find immortality, as it only exists as an idea of man, and not a function of life.
I don't know the only thing I can be over 99% sure of is that it won't be in any of our lifetimes. If it ever was to happen humanity would have to be capable of deep space travel because if humanity isn't that far along then overpopulation/lack of resources would probably cause massive problems
Is being cryogenically frozen count? I think probably not since you can't do anything. And besides who needs immortality? Isn't 100 years, give or take a few, good enough? I do feel sorry for people that die befor their time. Everybody deserves to live until their body just can't take anymore.
Just learn how to extend your existence into the spirit and you can never die spiritually. Like parma hanza yogananda, when he was about to die, he meditated for 3 days and just sent his spirit out of his body to live on in the next realm.
Personally, this is the single most interesting type of question ever, To live forever... Would you want to? what does it really mean to exist anyways? could you live on in another dimension or reality without your physical body?
i think it could happen in our lifetimes. they already know where the aging part of the DNA strand is (near the end) and they are just knocking on the door of stem cell possibilities for things like regrowing organs. i think (possible) immortality is closer than we think. i just dont think anyone here will be able to afford it
Im pretty sure they are not too far off from making immortatlity a reality.They just have to find exactly what it is that cuases cells to stop regenerating.
I think though once this has all been figured out, it still wont be happening. I think, and hope there would be laws preventing immortality. There would be obvious harmfull effects.
Interesting question. I believe that we may discover some way to eventualy maintain our existance perminantly or for longer periods of time , whether it be in the physical sense, or by some other means.
I do not however believe we are that close at all to tapping into the secrets of aging encoded in our DNA. While we may be able to tweak our DNA to make us live longer, I do not believe true immortality will be ever possible through DNA alone.
I saw an interesting science fiction show recently that involved the concept of incorporating human personalities into a network of machines. Basically parts of people's brains were preserved and 'uploaded' to a sort of internet like network system. While this is highly unlikely I thought it was an interesting concept noneltheless.
Interesting question. I believe that we may discover some way to eventualy maintain our existance perminantly or for longer periods of time , whether it be in the physical sense, or by some other means.
I do not however believe we are that close at all to tapping into the secrets of aging encoded in our DNA. While we may be able to tweak our DNA to make us live longer, I do not believe true immortality will be ever possible through DNA alone.
I saw an interesting science fiction show recently that involved the concept of incorporating human personalities into a network of machines. Basically parts of people's brains were preserved and 'uploaded' to a sort of internet like network system. While this is highly unlikely I thought it was an interesting concept noneltheless.
Basically there is an on off switch oin your DNA.. once they find it.. it wont be a matter of how long you can be prolonged, it will just be a matter of flipping switches.
Yes, but I highly doubt that altering DNA could ever possibly prevent aging completely. Things naturally wear out, there is no magical genetic switch that could make people live forever, only longer. I think in conjunction with machine and stem cell technology .... perhaps
Well, I think you would just die in a random car accident before dieing of old age, if they messed with your DNA. The oldest living tree has been growing for over 9,500 years. If you dont die in a random incident by then, or get some kind of fatal disease, your pretty lucky.
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Our entire society is built around people living a specific period of time. Outliving that period means outliving friends and family, eventually children, your job (and perhaps even the industry in which your job exists), perhaps even your own body (after 500 years, I can imagine your knee joints would be ground down to pegs).
Really, we live long enough to have kids, and raise them to fend for themselves, eventually repeating the process. So long as we have the capacity to do this, we're immortal.
Now...what to do about those damned asteroids.
So no, we will never find immortality, as it only exists as an idea of man, and not a function of life.
So far, so good.
Personally, this is the single most interesting type of question ever, To live forever... Would you want to? what does it really mean to exist anyways? could you live on in another dimension or reality without your physical body?
I like to think so. who knows.
Bury me with my money............................
I think though once this has all been figured out, it still wont be happening. I think, and hope there would be laws preventing immortality. There would be obvious harmfull effects.
Interesting question. I believe that we may discover some way to eventualy maintain our existance perminantly or for longer periods of time , whether it be in the physical sense, or by some other means.
I do not however believe we are that close at all to tapping into the secrets of aging encoded in our DNA. While we may be able to tweak our DNA to make us live longer, I do not believe true immortality will be ever possible through DNA alone.
I saw an interesting science fiction show recently that involved the concept of incorporating human personalities into a network of machines. Basically parts of people's brains were preserved and 'uploaded' to a sort of internet like network system. While this is highly unlikely I thought it was an interesting concept noneltheless.
Interesting question. I believe that we may discover some way to eventualy maintain our existance perminantly or for longer periods of time , whether it be in the physical sense, or by some other means.
I do not however believe we are that close at all to tapping into the secrets of aging encoded in our DNA. While we may be able to tweak our DNA to make us live longer, I do not believe true immortality will be ever possible through DNA alone.
I saw an interesting science fiction show recently that involved the concept of incorporating human personalities into a network of machines. Basically parts of people's brains were preserved and 'uploaded' to a sort of internet like network system. While this is highly unlikely I thought it was an interesting concept noneltheless.
Basically there is an on off switch oin your DNA.. once they find it.. it wont be a matter of how long you can be prolonged, it will just be a matter of flipping switches.