For Charloft: Live forever or die old.
Jun. 4th, 2009 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malcolmeffectImmortality is chaos. It bucks every natural system and social one. It would throw the dynamics of any system into a tail spin. It’s what society wants. Everyone is out for a miracle drug to make us look younger, to make us live longer. Everyone is trying to market a miracle cream or pill these days.
I’m not entirely sure all this stretch for immortality is good. My ego might entertain the idea but physically, I’d spend forever crippled. Maybe science would find a way to fix that but what if it doesn’t? The world is a system with much more chance to crash than head for some scientific utopia where aging ceases to be an issue. What’s the use of riding out the crash?
There are other things to consider. Who gets to live forever? The intelligent people, the wealthy people; how are they going to choose? I know how. Money, marketing and packaging like everything else. Got to sell. Got to sell. I’m not sure life is something people should be marketing, packaging and selling in a little bottle or pill.
The crusade for immortality is lost in the theories already present. There is a point when the human body can no longer repair itself, an upward maximum. They system will break down regardless of immortality via drugs or some other means. The only way to ensure immortality without the promise of death is a closed system. Any open system with the multitude of variables life presents will never experience true immortality. If you die, immortality failed. Chaos wittles away at everything and tears it toward breakdown. The longest lived things we can observe, stars, still face the catastrophe of demise. To us they could well be immortal but even they only portray it in the very limited sense.
Chaos does not lend itself to immortality. Entropy will destroy everything in the end. God is barely escaping human mediated destruction as we speak, in a very ethereal sense. If God isn’t immortal, man is trying to be immortal and failing miserably, I doubt immortality is ever going to be a serious prospect. Not true immortality. People and things will mimic it. They will live a facsimile of immortality but the real thing is beyond the reach of anyone or anything.
I’m not entirely sure all this stretch for immortality is good. My ego might entertain the idea but physically, I’d spend forever crippled. Maybe science would find a way to fix that but what if it doesn’t? The world is a system with much more chance to crash than head for some scientific utopia where aging ceases to be an issue. What’s the use of riding out the crash?
There are other things to consider. Who gets to live forever? The intelligent people, the wealthy people; how are they going to choose? I know how. Money, marketing and packaging like everything else. Got to sell. Got to sell. I’m not sure life is something people should be marketing, packaging and selling in a little bottle or pill.
The crusade for immortality is lost in the theories already present. There is a point when the human body can no longer repair itself, an upward maximum. They system will break down regardless of immortality via drugs or some other means. The only way to ensure immortality without the promise of death is a closed system. Any open system with the multitude of variables life presents will never experience true immortality. If you die, immortality failed. Chaos wittles away at everything and tears it toward breakdown. The longest lived things we can observe, stars, still face the catastrophe of demise. To us they could well be immortal but even they only portray it in the very limited sense.
Chaos does not lend itself to immortality. Entropy will destroy everything in the end. God is barely escaping human mediated destruction as we speak, in a very ethereal sense. If God isn’t immortal, man is trying to be immortal and failing miserably, I doubt immortality is ever going to be a serious prospect. Not true immortality. People and things will mimic it. They will live a facsimile of immortality but the real thing is beyond the reach of anyone or anything.
