Infinite life
Everyone is on their phones. There's conversation, but I wonder if anyone here has ever thought of the question I'm thinking of. Imagine if there was something that we could use to communicate with all minds to ask them a question, so then, the whole lunch room could erupt in the same conversation. Not like a microphone, but something more advanced. Something like a connected interweb hivemind, where once a lunch period, someone could upload a question that every mind receives. If something like that would exist, I'd ask everyone something like this:
What would life look like with infinite life?
Obviously, I don't imagine us (humans) achieving infinite life in our lifetimes, as technology is not nearly advanced enough. But if/when it does happen, how would we achieve it? Would we upload our minds into a sort of digital consciousness? Would our bodies be mechanical with replaceable parts? Could we achieve a second death after the death of our human bodies? Could we disconnect our digital consciousness and die, but then get rebooted and come back? What would the human body look like? Would we extend infinite life to pets, animals, and plant life?
Would humans feel the need to reproduce?
With infinite life, resources would eventually get scarce if humans kept reproducing. The new life would die easily. What would death feel like to those with early access to the infinite life, after all, I don't imagine only one person would achieve eternity? Would the resources to obtain infinite life run out, leaving a parent with eternity's child to die, how would that feel?
With the idea of this digital interface where we can store our minds, we could make a digital catalog of everything so that when we eventually leave Earth to explore the planets and conquer the universe, we could upload all our experiences and information about the universe to this catalog so that everyone has knowledge of it. As we explore, we could repopulate then, but as we eventually reach all the planets and galaxies, once again we reach that problem of there being too many people and not enough resources. Topped with this digital catalog idea, there wouldn't be a need for people to reproduce, would there?
After all:
If you could see everything for yourself, why wouldn't you?
Mar 13
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