RE: If you could, would you live forever?
03-25-2013, 11:07 AM
Here's a video that talks briefly about human perception of time and lifespan. Doesn't really answer any questions, but I find it gives some good things to think about.
I seem to recall watching a youtube clip talking about the maximum storage size of the human mind, and it's fallibility, but I don't remember where to find it or what it really said. [/irony]
I've noticed a lot of talk about immortality being a helping factor in solving societal issues. I'm not sure how this helps?
Like, if you suddenly knew you had millennia to live, would that really empower you to cause greater change than you could right now? Would you honestly be more motivated to use your time productively? Or would the time you have become even less valuable to you? And is your lack of immortality really the key reason that you aren't trying to create wide-scale change now?
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I seem to recall watching a youtube clip talking about the maximum storage size of the human mind, and it's fallibility, but I don't remember where to find it or what it really said. [/irony]
I've noticed a lot of talk about immortality being a helping factor in solving societal issues. I'm not sure how this helps?
Like, if you suddenly knew you had millennia to live, would that really empower you to cause greater change than you could right now? Would you honestly be more motivated to use your time productively? Or would the time you have become even less valuable to you? And is your lack of immortality really the key reason that you aren't trying to create wide-scale change now?