Comments on: immortality in 20 years? http://jonathan.beaton.name/archives/1984 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:20:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jonathan http://jonathan.beaton.name/archives/1984/comment-page-1#comment-12769 Jonathan Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:18:19 +0000 http://jonathan.beaton.name/?p=1984#comment-12769 I don't see any especial meaning in the materials with which we are already composed, so to add other things and change ourselves doesn't strike me as being especially sacrilege in that respect. Although undoubtedly things will get sticky if/when this sort of technology comes about and so I understand your concern from that point of view. I don’t see any especial meaning in the materials with which we are already composed, so to add other things and change ourselves doesn’t strike me as being especially sacrilege in that respect. Although undoubtedly things will get sticky if/when this sort of technology comes about and so I understand your concern from that point of view.

]]> By: Kasina http://jonathan.beaton.name/archives/1984/comment-page-1#comment-12763 Kasina Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:43:35 +0000 http://jonathan.beaton.name/?p=1984#comment-12763 i don't particularly like this view of the future. it's not just the disturbing notion of ever-lasting human life (in a world already full to brimming with our kind) or the vastly improved abilities for which we must attribute completely to technology and not to ourselves... it's primarily the scary prospect of becoming more robot than man, more built than born, perpetually dead while perpetually alive instead of dying while living. who would we be then? i think i'll be one of those idiots who keeps my own blood and my own heart and chooses to die when it fails me. i don’t particularly like this view of the future. it’s not just the disturbing notion of ever-lasting human life (in a world already full to brimming with our kind) or the vastly improved abilities for which we must attribute completely to technology and not to ourselves… it’s primarily the scary prospect of becoming more robot than man, more built than born, perpetually dead while perpetually alive instead of dying while living. who would we be then?

i think i’ll be one of those idiots who keeps my own blood and my own heart and chooses to die when it fails me.

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