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Would you liquidate your unessential assets for immortality?
I have already attained biological immortality. 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
I have already attained biological immortality. 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
My children are my immortality. 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
My children are my immortality. 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Memetic legacy works for me. 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Memetic legacy works for me. 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
What do you mean by unessential........ 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
What do you mean by unessential........ 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
I have no assets........ 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
I have no assets........ 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Yes. 15%  15%  [ 6 ]
Yes. 15%  15%  [ 6 ]
No. 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
No. 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 40

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29 Aug 2006, 3:29 pm

I hope that is not assuming that the planet earth is able to support traditional carbon-based life forms for an infinite amount of time, which it is not. In several billion year the sun will expand, drying up the oceans and baking the earth's surface, and eventually swallows our planet. We will have had to settle other habitable planets by that time in order to survive, and even then, food sources for carbon-based lifeforms are limited whereas a computer only needs electricity.

I personally want immortality. By the time I die, I hope to have my brain scanned into a computer system. I would be able to interact with a virtual world indefinitely and with the physical world through a humanoid robot under my control. .