View Full Version : What would you choose?
EyesWideOpen
02-01-2010, 09:23 PM
Image that ten years from now, a technology becomes available which will allow your consciousness to be downloaded into a machine body when you die, effectively achieving immortality. Your mechanical body can appear human, have a synthetic skin, human vision, the ability to feel. You will live forever, as your mechanical body does not need maintenance or batteries.
Would you do it?
I personally would not. Why? I believe that death is an essential part of life. If you know that you will never die, life itself loses its meaning. Nothing is ever at stake, nothing matters. Beyond that, I want to know what happens when I die...waiting an eternity with the question unanswered would be too much to bear. Even if all that awaits me is oblivion, I still want to know.
Thoughts?
Aihwa
02-01-2010, 09:33 PM
In a heartbeat. I want to know how it ends.
Tsyal Makto
02-01-2010, 09:46 PM
In a heartbeat. I want to know how it ends.
This. I want to see what's gonna happen well beyond my expected lifetime. Who knows? We might get lucky and encounter an Avatar-like situation in the future, I don't want to miss that.:ntongue: Who knows what the future will hold? Why skip the chance to experience something like that?
Jeremiah
02-01-2010, 09:49 PM
You can't transfer someone's spirit over to a machine. No, I wouldn't do it, because it is not a natural part of life.
Uniltìranyu
02-01-2010, 09:50 PM
In a heartbeat. I want to know how it ends.
This. I'm curious to what will happen in the future.
fortress8
02-01-2010, 09:55 PM
YES!!! i would totally do it. Can you imagine to conquer death? well if my new body was going to be effect by and EMP or something like that and if that happened and it got shut off no i wouldn't. When you become old and gray who doesn't want to be younger. I totally disagree. I believe their is no soul. It's just a chemical reaction up in your brain. if my conscious could be downloaded on to the computer what so bad? I'm totally not interested to find out what is after death/ To me theirs nothing. I believe their is nothing after death so i might as well live as long as possible
SaphirJD
02-01-2010, 10:05 PM
Without doubt. Alone for the Reason to see things further advancing, you could see all the things happen in the future which you could not see when you have to face death.
You could take part - This journey alone would be so awesome.
SilentEagle
02-01-2010, 10:40 PM
I'd do it.
There are too many things to see and experience in one lifetime. I'd like several more please.
Apollo
02-01-2010, 10:45 PM
I see life as work anyways. Id enjoy the emotion and everything as a human but I would continue my legacy by my doing. When I am tired of doing it, I'll commit overload and leave everything to my next of kin.
Hostergaard
02-02-2010, 08:59 AM
Before i saw the movie? sure!
after i saw the movie? not so sure, part of me is longing for death just in chase that i would be reborn as a navi...
ikranflyer
02-02-2010, 09:32 AM
I wouldnt do it. Honestly, the future scares me. I wouldnt want to be "alive" in a world where weve completely ruined anything natural, people are starving, and war is rampant. I dont know, maybe im just being a pessimist, but thats how I see the future, and I wouldnt want to live in it. I could be completely wrong though.
Besides, I wouldn want to live on without my family, and if they didnt go through with downloading their spirit, then theyd die and Id be alone.
Kestor
02-02-2010, 09:38 AM
Wouldn't do it.
The future will be filled of guys like fortress8. I don't want to live in such a future.
Fkeu'itan
02-02-2010, 09:40 AM
Nope. Death is a part of life and I don't know if I could watch every single person I have ever known die before me, especially my children and grandchildren. I am interested to know how it would all end though.
LOGAN
02-02-2010, 09:49 AM
Wouldn't do it. I agree that without death life is meaningless.
but our lives go on so quickly, Having a couple extra years would be fine with me !
fr3akshow
02-02-2010, 09:50 AM
i'm not sure, it'd be great to live forever and see what happens in the future, i'm really curoius about that. But watching everyone i care about die before me could be really tough.
Vincent Vega
02-02-2010, 10:10 AM
I'd do it.
There are too many things to see and experience in one lifetime. I'd like several more please.
^This
Cynical Skyman
02-02-2010, 10:30 AM
Allow me to think for just a minute...
http://www.avatar-forums.com/images/imported/2010/02/126.jpg
Yes - Yes - And Yes.
Just think about all the knowledge - And experience you could gain by outliving all the other meatbags.
Eventual lack of emotion is the downside of it all. But by then, i hardly think i'd bother anyhow.
*Edit* And yes, i do know this goes against everything this website stands for. But sheesh. Death, or a new chance at life? I know where i stand.
kurtaang
02-02-2010, 10:37 AM
Ive said this a lot of times..HUMANS SHOULD STOP TAMPERING WITH MOTHER NATURE!!
I would never do it!y?Cuz im already disgusted by the people and can't stand the fact tht this world is dying!I would surely not want to live beyond my death..that to in an artificial body!!Ugh!
*Shudders*
TORUK-MAKTO
02-02-2010, 10:40 AM
Image that ten years from now, a technology becomes available which will allow your consciousness to be downloaded into a machine body when you die, effectively achieving immortality. Your mechanical body can appear human, have a synthetic skin, human vision, the ability to feel. You will live forever, as your mechanical body does not need maintenance or batteries.
Would you do it?
I personally would not. Why? I believe that death is an essential part of life. If you know that you will never die, life itself loses its meaning. Nothing is ever at stake, nothing matters. Beyond that, I want to know what happens when I die...waiting an eternity with the question unanswered would be too much to bear. Even if all that awaits me is oblivion, I still want to know.
Thoughts?
Not a machine body, but if they had nanomachine therapy to repair your current body that would be fine by me.
Neytiri.
02-02-2010, 10:44 AM
Death is not the end, it is just the beginning of your next adventure.
I would choose to pass on hands down.
I would gladly do it provided in 10 years I am not ready to depart. You always have the option to self-terminate.
As far as death being the beginning of the next adventure. Really? And we know this because ..... ?