Topic: Immortality.. could humanity achieve that? - page 2. (Read 665 times)

If you’re up to date with tech news or even transhumanism, you’ll be amazed with the different possibilities being explored to achieve immortality. Aside from AI (we could be cyborgs), we could turn digital and live via a virtual world. Immortality via technology, could be highly probable. I think the Virternity has already started a crowdfunding project for that. Have you heard of it?

maybe u could try the sleeping box like the movies we saw, add a bit scene so that you wouldn't be bored and then some aliens finally found u after a few thousand centuries 

I don't think human kind will ever achieve this.  I think the best we can do is manipulating genes to eradicate genetic defects and maybe improve medicine to cure illness.  That may prolong life, but it's still not immortality.

He's not asking if it can be done today but in the future. Ageing is probably -- or likely -- mostly genetic so I'm sure at some point we'll be able to turn that off due to genetic engineering and also live much longer due to medical advances and such, but there's a whole host of factors involved in ageing. Organs will just give up eventually so they'll either need to be replaced like car parts every so often or we'll need to invent new types of synthetic or mechanical organs -- but they can and will also break. I don't know if we'll ever be able to truly live forever but life expectancy could probably double within a hundred years or so. We'll likely improve our diet and eliminate a lot of causes of cancer and heart disease as we are learning how to minimize already, but you probably won't be able to ever eliminate dying due to trauma such as accidents and the longer you live the more likely you're going to be involved in them. Maybe someday we'll be able to upload or "save" our consciousness to a computer and maybe that will give us some sort of immortality, but it's a bit spooky even thinking about, but what actually is redlips06's definition of "forever"? The sun is going to explode and engulf this planet at some point so unless we can find another outside the solar system then we'll be screwed eventually. Even further on from that the universe will also probably collapse in on itself at some point so how would we survive that unless we can find a wormhole to another universe or dimension or something. I think we should just accept that one day we, the planet and also the universe are not going to exist any more and make the most of what we have now.

Okay, quess if we already achieved immortality. It raises a lot of new issues humanity never faced before. For example, what should we do with overpopulation? Freeze birth rate to zero?
Moreover, immortality would be extra-deluxe product only for rich people - I doubt common people will have access to it at all.

I think, that we have achieved that. And i am very sorry about it. We can see every day immorality: at the bus stop, at home, in our families. I think that the question must be - how can we pretend immorality ?

We can achieve immortality if someone discovers the solution.

Humans are currently at their longest lifespans ever.  Just 500 years ago, the average lifespan was 30 years.

Women got pregnant at 12 - raised their children for a decade and died. 

Well according to Hoybook, humans lived longer than 500years until this happened:

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years." Genesis 6:3

Can life be extended beyond 120yrs limit? I have some doubt.

Wikipedia however claims that the oldest person on Earth is 122yrs. There could be some error here in my opinion. Or maybe only tiny amount of people could surpass this age limit by our Creator.

We're already doing that. In fact, our all our ancestors will ... one day be revived from death. Look at how technology has improved. I am confident to say that human will invent revival technology one day and use it on some of our famous ancestors to learn more from them. Even if my first prediction is wrong, the universe will never dies when earth became unpopulated or when human extinct. The universe will continues to run. One fine moment, when some chemicals somehow mixes together, you may wake up with all your memories (like how the first living organism was formed as predicted). It will just be like a blink for us after we're death. This is my personal theory.

Right now? No. Whether biologically or digital, the answer  to this is no. The only thing that exists after death is the afterlife, which none of us can confirm nor deny because it might be different for different people. But if you know a technology that can make us immortal let me know. I'd love to check it out.

You just imagine yourself so uninteresting and monotonous your life will be in the 100-200 years of your life. And let your body still be somewhat miraculous, but your mind will be too old and you will not have anything interesting in life.

one day yes ! nothing is impossible .

I believe this is the ultimate goal of technology and modern medicine, and I don't think we're all that far off. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/mankind-could-have-electronic-immortality-by-2050

It's not a question of if we can achieve this, but when. Then people have to ask themselves if this is what they even want. I'm not so sure it would be psychologically healthy to live "forever." (really just until the heat death of the universe)

I think they were talking about living forever, which is impossible.

You're describing a plaque on their church if they donate enough money.

The only way to "achieve" immortality, is to let God do it for you, and have faith that He is doing it... through the salvation provided by His son Jesus.

With all the developments with immersive technologies, I would not be surprised if immortality becomes a reality. So the question would be: When is it going to happen?

With the kind of technology we have now? No, because there isn't a technology that can make this happen, whether digitally or biologically. There's not even a company that is working on this. So the answer to your question is no. But come back after 50-100 years, maybe the future generation finally found a way to defeat once and for all.

I guess we might achieve mind immortality relatively soon. But I`m not really sure if people would really want that.

Not the first time I see this topic on this forum, well what can I say, look, we don't know what we're talking about, we didn't see no heaven, no hell, no reincarnation.
Let's not guess what and how, but just live for today