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Originally Posted by uno
Immortality would most likely be a disaster. Lifetimes of everyone would stretch so far as to make death a vestigial concept of something 'lesser' and more 'inferior' being did.
If a Brave New World type of society arose we'd be no more than machines. Cogs in a greater machine greased to keep the world turning for no particular greater purpose than continued existance.
If there was no chance of death or other consequences for ones actions what incentives would there be to do or not do things. What would drive anyone to ever do anything?
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Pleasure would probably drive people to do things, as would ambition for fame, intellectual recognition, social interaction... You might be right, immortality might indeed lead to disaster, but we have no real way to predict what the effects would be. Nor do we have a way of preventing scientists from achieving it, for that matter. The only thing that is beyond a doubt is that the next few hundred years will be very interesting both from a technological as well as a philosophical point of view. I'm particularly looking forward to the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence
