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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Samson's guide to immortality, and acceptance of the ultimate failure.
Immortality is something probably every human being has thought of at least once sometime during their lifetime. I guess it comes with the uncertainty and fear that comes along with the awareness of death...it's strange that we are even aware of something like death. How could something exist and have an awareness of its existence be able to comprehend something that is completely the opposite of itself, its existence. To comprehend or put into words such things is completely impossible so I should just give up now. Immortality is definitely an ideal for the most part, and isn't completely impossible in theory, especially with the world today and the technology we have available.
Let's take for example technology such as the internet. Soon enough we will have created a universe of its own that will be completely self sustaining. As long as this universe doesn't collapse and the earth doesn't cease to exist the internet will last for almost forever. So technically we could actually program an apparatus within the internet that would mimmick the human body but would not have a limited life expectancy. Then once we have created this "body" we could upload our consciousness into this new body just before we die and carry on as a conscious individual within our own self created universe. Robots would be programmed to repair and maintain the systems that keep the internet running in the real world, along with young human beings who haven't passed over to the other side yet. That's one crazy Idea. I am sure the mechanics of uploading our own individual consciousness into a programmed body that would exist in the internet forever is a little more complex then this paragraph but this is the basic idea. Not to mention that their are huge moral and philosophical paradox's and issues surrounding an idea such as this.
Another idea for becoming an immortal individual humanoid being is this. As our technology advances soon we will be able to replicate body parts and organs using all sorts of technology, and just ended transforming ourselves into complete androids which I think is equally cool. As our heart fails we replace it with an artificial one, and as time goes on we create artificial pieces of the brain until our consciousness is completely contained within a mechanical being......Tripppy lol!
Ultimately true immortality is impossible as an individual humanoid being existing within a forever changing universe, even if its a universe within a universe because there unforeseen possibilities that could not be avoided even if we tried. Ultimately I guess the only thing we could do is prolong our selves from ceasing to exist, even if we got lucky and successfully get ourselves from dying for millions and millions of years. Infinity and forever is a concept that is completely impossible to exist as. Because existence itself is something that cannot stand up to something as complex as infinity or forever.....because quite frankly that is one fucking long ass time.
Peace out dreamers.
Let's take for example technology such as the internet. Soon enough we will have created a universe of its own that will be completely self sustaining. As long as this universe doesn't collapse and the earth doesn't cease to exist the internet will last for almost forever. So technically we could actually program an apparatus within the internet that would mimmick the human body but would not have a limited life expectancy. Then once we have created this "body" we could upload our consciousness into this new body just before we die and carry on as a conscious individual within our own self created universe. Robots would be programmed to repair and maintain the systems that keep the internet running in the real world, along with young human beings who haven't passed over to the other side yet. That's one crazy Idea. I am sure the mechanics of uploading our own individual consciousness into a programmed body that would exist in the internet forever is a little more complex then this paragraph but this is the basic idea. Not to mention that their are huge moral and philosophical paradox's and issues surrounding an idea such as this.
Another idea for becoming an immortal individual humanoid being is this. As our technology advances soon we will be able to replicate body parts and organs using all sorts of technology, and just ended transforming ourselves into complete androids which I think is equally cool. As our heart fails we replace it with an artificial one, and as time goes on we create artificial pieces of the brain until our consciousness is completely contained within a mechanical being......Tripppy lol!
Ultimately true immortality is impossible as an individual humanoid being existing within a forever changing universe, even if its a universe within a universe because there unforeseen possibilities that could not be avoided even if we tried. Ultimately I guess the only thing we could do is prolong our selves from ceasing to exist, even if we got lucky and successfully get ourselves from dying for millions and millions of years. Infinity and forever is a concept that is completely impossible to exist as. Because existence itself is something that cannot stand up to something as complex as infinity or forever.....because quite frankly that is one fucking long ass time.
Peace out dreamers.
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