I did read the faq, and I overlooked this while posting, thanks for pointing it out and I've made a quick fix.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 18:26, archived)
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(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 18:27, archived)
slowly turning a dead day on /board into an exciting day in /talk
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 18:46, archived)
You know, we might not all always die, in the future. What do you think about that?
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 18:58, archived)
most notably clams and lobsters.
In humans, or indeed any vertebrates, some cells cannot be be indefinitely regenerated.
As such, we will always die.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 19:18, archived)
at some point we will be dead and then we will not be made of anything.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 19:23, archived)
I think you all take some perverse comfort in impending death.
The statement "everybody always dies" is typically said with a certain quiet glee.
Our brains are only kinds of machine, and we are only the processes taking place in those machines. Keeping a person alive forever is just a matter of maintaining the process in some form, any form.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 19:30, archived)
I mean, we need to continually be developing just for that person and planets do not last all that long really.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:01, archived)
and I don't see why you need assume only one person would benefit from any such techiniques.
There's probably technically some opposite end to time, though, yes, so I may not actually mean infinitely long by forever.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:11, archived)
I fancy it'd be arse though.
I do not want to live forever.
I would enjoy seeing my grandchildren, but I welcome death, when it comes.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:32, archived)