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- From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek)
- Subject: Re: Life extension debate coming up in my flat?
- References: <1992Nov17.064332.2760@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:32:30 GMT
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- >What do you hope to attain with this super extended lifespan enlightenment?
-
- Try to write down all the things that you'd like to do in life.
- You'd come up with a list to fill hundreds of years.
-
- >the invention of the next 105 sex positions? <---not relevant I guess but my
-
- I wonder if we would get bored of sex after living so long - I mean if you think
- about it, sex is pretty monotonous - just the same old mutual stimulation of the
- brain's pleasure centers. There are plenty more interesting things to do.
-
- > What can you discover in 600 years that can't be discovered in 50-70.
-
- Today - there is so much knowledge that noone can ever hope to know but a
- fraction of it. Isn't discovering more of this knowledge worth it?
-
- >Also don't you think that if ultimately this was possible and birth rates
- > decreased you'd be limiting change and society would become stagnant
- > without input from the next generations <-- which would add to
- > experience and all the inbetweens would be lost!
-
- Glad you brought that up - I've agonized over it many a time.
- That's what SPACE is for. This whole "limit the population" thing is only
- valid while we are stuck on earth. Once we move into outer space - no such
- limits need exist.
-
- > _all_ the population living on, reduced birth rate, less _variety_ of
- > human experience or a slowing down of the creation of that variety
- > _part_ of the people living on, unbalanced power relations, more of the
- > same
-
- But you also have to realize that allowing more time for life would give
- each of us more time to experience and learn a VARIETY of things. We would
- be able to create more interesting, better, things.
-
- >ramble ramble
-
- (the gist of the rambling seems to be that sufferring can never be eliminated)
-
- Yes, but as we live longer, we seem to be able to handle suffering better.
-
- >Rapists murderers? What _do_ you want to preserve?
-
- Also more time for them to learn that they must reform their ways.
- Most crimes are committed by young adults.
-
- >Also would life be as intense an experience?
-
- Life allways seems to be intense.
-
- >Why would quality change for the _overall_ better just because of
- >increased quantity? um um
-
- yes.
-