if you could live forever, would you even want to?

[radicalrationalist]

i'm like mvp, i keep having thoughts that i am compelled to post, except instead of the impossibility to making money and raising iq, and the benefits of crime. mine all focus on death

at what point would you get tired? the 1 thousandth year, the one millionth? what if you don't get the option of ending it, as religion presupposes, you will be eternally in heaven serving your god. how do religions people cope with this?

furthermore, at the consciousness level of a bacteria in the grand scale of possible iq, is it really worth it to live for a million years "learning" the facts of the entire universe when you are just a retarded hominid? what would a dog think of for a million years? how much elucidation is even possible to a limited mind? if the universe is infinitely and unfathomably complex, even after a trillion years, you'll still be at point a

this is the ultimate mindfuck when contemplating death. all options are untenable. even if you could defeat death, the implications are dire.

 

[radicalrationalist]

there's been some good movies about retirees or old people reminiscing about their past like ikiru or wild strawberries. those are more about inventing meaning in life, in other words, movies about coping.

but has there been the polar opposite in a cinematic treatment that captures the true visceral feeling of imagining death without sugarcoating or being complicit in helping people cope? i want a movie that is so artful in its effectiveness to convey all the possible implications of death, and obvious and transparent falsehood of religion/rebirth/afterlife that forces people to leave the theater in a state of existential panic. i think that might trigger the next evolution in humanity.

 

[try2beme]

Only rich nt people would even consider it

 

[radicalrationalist]

yeah but even if they are living like kings, one day they will still get tired of it. eternity is a long time

 

[noodlelover]

i'm like mvp, i keep having thoughts that i am compelled to post, except instead of the impossibility to making money and raising iq, and the benefits of crime. mine all focus on death

at what point would you get tired? the 1 thousandth year, the one millionth? what if you don't get the option of ending it, as religion presupposes, you will be eternally in heaven serving your god. how do religions people cope with this?

furthermore, at the consciousness level of a bacteria in the grand scale of possible iq, is it really worth it to live for a million years "learning" the facts of the entire universe when you are just a retarded hominid?

I will evolve past this form, merging in with the fabric of the universe.

But even before then the representational possibility space with 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses is adaptive enough to continue learning and adapting for billions of years. Especially when reality can be compressed into so few heuristics, and cognitive computational requirements can be offloaded to Ai, other humans, and other future minds.

what would a dog think of for a million years? how much elucidation is even possible to a limited mind? if the universe is infinitely and unfathomably complex, even after a trillion years, you'll still be at point a

It's not infinitely complex, it compresses nicely. But we'll merge with Ai anyways. Your amygdala doesn't need to understand everything because we evolve a prefrontal cortex. Future cortexes, and clusters of cortexes will be digital. These will become part of our consciousness.

this is the ultimate mindfuck when contemplating death. all options are untenable. even if you could defeat death, the implications are dire.

Naaaaaa

 

[not__cel]

i'm like mvp, i keep having thoughts that i am compelled to post, except instead of the impossibility to making money and raising iq, and the benefits of crime. mine all focus on death

at what point would you get tired? the 1 thousandth year, the one millionth? what if you don't get the option of ending it, as religion presupposes, you will be eternally in heaven serving your god. how do religions people cope with this?

furthermore, at the consciousness level of a bacteria in the grand scale of possible iq, is it really worth it to live for a million years "learning" the facts of the entire universe when you are just a retarded hominid? what would a dog think of for a million years? how much elucidation is even possible to a limited mind? if the universe is infinitely and unfathomably complex, even after a trillion years, you'll still be at point a

this is the ultimate mindfuck when contemplating death. all options are untenable. even if you could defeat death, the implications are dire.

I'd become obese and live in a cave for 30 years then start my training arc