What if human beings can live forever
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Scientists have theorized that the human mind can be transferred into a quantum computer/artificial intelligence construct, and thus achieving digital immortality.
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Can still make love after that?
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The government would take over the breeding process, of course the government would have to be worldwide for this to work so, world domination would first have to be achieved, people would then be selected, not at random, but by their intelligence, or abilities, to breed. All guesswork as to who's genes would pair best with whom's would be removed. Falling in love would be considered blase, and a thing of the past.
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interesting
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God is smarter than our perfessers.
Long life is determined by 'timers' that sit atop our genes. If you get too few of the timers you die early, if you get too many you get cancer. The timers exist to keep us inside the fence of a useful life. God hates old bastards like me.
Long life is determined by 'timers' that sit atop our genes. If you get too few of the timers you die early, if you get too many you get cancer. The timers exist to keep us inside the fence of a useful life. God hates old bastards like me.
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Not likely. With all the advances humans have made average life expectancy has gone from like 40 to 80 years old. Yet the achievable maximum has not gone up. In ancient days there were quite a few famous persons who lived into their 80s and 90s while the common populace died at 40.
Chances are cultural and technology would stagnate. If you can live for ever, there is no real drive to get things done. Meh! I'll worry about it next century.
Might make going into space easier. Those long trips to other worlds could be done, maybe.
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The government would take over the breeding process, of course the government would have to be worldwide for this to work so, world domination would first have to be achieved, people would then be selected, not at random, but by their intelligence, or abilities, to breed. All guesswork as to who's genes would pair best with whom's would be removed. Falling in love would be considered blase, and a thing of the past.
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Exactly. How would all these people be fed? Hard to get a job or a promotion if no one dies to make room.
Remember the Star Trek episode were Kirk was kidnapped so he could infect the population with a new disease to kill a bunch off.
We could have euthanasia booths for those who just got tired of living. Might get awful boring after a few centuries.
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I would never want to live forever. Life would not be revered. Imagination all the pain and devastation one would witness. No thank you.
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Much interesting thread. It's ever possible to live forever?
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Various Easter religions might say with reincarnation of the soul, you do live for ever. Even Christians might think so. Except for a bit of a wait in a grave until the end times. Then reborn in the light of Jesus, or something like that.
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Science wasn't high on your list of school coursework.
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The human body is made up primarily of six chemical elements (and a mere handful of trace elements). As such, it is easy to forget that biology is but a mere advanced function of chemistry.
Living forever ultimately results in a chemical quandary rather than a mere biological challenge involving manipulating genetics or curing disease. Biology is highly dependent on several biogeochemical cycles (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, etc.) which in turn depend on decay and replenishment of the life forms containing those elements. And earth elements are largely finite in quantity. A continually growing population whose bodies are 57% water implies, at the very least, a competition for water on an unprecedented scale, which in turn DEMANDS an unprecedented scale of production of NEW HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN to make more water. From where? What will we do when we've desalinized the oceans and drank all that water and people are building condos at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
And speaking of condos on dried up ocean floor beds, demands for the finite chemical elements in our bodies would be nothing compared to the demands which an eternally growing population would make on finite chemical element resources for food, housing, energy, clothing, etc.
Bottom line: You're gonna die. Because there simply isn't enough "life," or at least the chemical elements that enable it, to support the alternative.
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Would we age
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Well you would have to assume that not everyone will want to stop aging.
Add to that the fact people could and would still be killed, be it in an accident, a criminal way or through their own hands after living for so long that they went mad.
Overpopulation would be an issue, but it wouldn't be as simple as 'people stop dying'.
Add to that the fact people could and would still be killed, be it in an accident, a criminal way or through their own hands after living for so long that they went mad.
Overpopulation would be an issue, but it wouldn't be as simple as 'people stop dying'.
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Well as long as my cock stills work
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