Do You Want to Be Immortal? Really?
September 03, 2012
"...it is likely that there are people alive today who will never die.... medical technology is advancing so rapidly that sometime later in this century, Homo sapiens will become Homo immortalis."
This is a fascinating question relative to Bob Monroe's perspective that to evolve we must ultimately "acheive escape velocity," that is, move beyond the addictive vibrational patterns of the earth life system.
From HuffingtonPost.com. By George M Young:
According to Dr. Igor Vishev (b. 1933), a distinguished Russian scientist and philosopher, it is likely that there are people alive today who will never die. Just stop for a moment and think about that. Alive today. Never die.
Vishev is convinced that medical technology is advancing so rapidly that sometime later in this century, Homo sapiens will become Homo immortalis. He believes that our current lifespan of up to 90 or, in extreme instances, slightly over 100 years, is not cast in stone or fixed in nature but an evolutionary stage out of which we are now emerging. Genetic engineering, replacement of natural organs with artificial instruments, nanotechnology, and other developing technologies could now extend our lives well beyond today's assumed limits. He proposes that a 200-year-old person is a present possibility, and a person who could live at least as long as a 2,000-year-old redwood tree is certainly imaginable. Such longevity will be self-propelling. New discoveries during the 200-year (or 2,000-year) lifespan would make what Vishev calls "practical immortality" a fairly safe bet. By "practical" he means "realizable" but not absolute. People could still die, accidentally or otherwise, but eventually techniques of "practical resurrection," toward which today's cloning is a primitive first step, would be able to restore life to those who somehow lose it. Vishev's philosophy, which he calls "practical immortology," is an attempt to shift our entire culture and worldview from one based on the certainty of human mortality to one based on the prospect of human immortality.
...The important question now may not be whether remaking ourselves and our universe to eliminate limits to present life is possible, but whether it is desirable....Could many of our best intangibles be lost in the transition from human to "transhuman"?...
Comments
It would be terrible if some could force others to be immortal, maybe to be slaves or be abused, and there’s no way out. Wow, that’s too terrible!!! Oh God, please help me not to be in such a state. Maybe the physical universe with immortality, the two working in partnership, is a creation of the spirits - so that there would be humans with physical bodies living under the illusion of time and have mortality. I think it’s valuable if some, or at least one, of those who have really died, not just near-deaths, could be brought back to tell us how the cosmics work, and how it’s like to have really physically died. Maybe they would tell us and then go back to their non-physical existence and physically die again quick 
. I really wish to live long enough to see something like this but unfortuanately there seems to be slim chance.
By tess on 2012 09 09
From the entry 'Do You Want to Be Immortal? Really?'.
what a mess… if only the rules and benefits of metempsychosis (reincarnation) were known… who wants to be immortally struck in your ego/emotional disorders/psychological problems , I’d better take a rest sometimes, until everything is perfect ))) (btw, when everything is perfect down here and you can graduate the next level, you’d want everything but immortality in the flesh in this level… kinda like getting immortal in the first level of super mario ahahahahahahahah )
By mederic degoy on 2012 09 04
From the entry 'Do You Want to Be Immortal? Really?'.
Perhaps we shoud let a couple of people get to be 200 and then ask them what try think.
By Ross Burke on 2012 09 03
From the entry 'Do You Want to Be Immortal? Really?'.
