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# We might not always be made of cells.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 19:21, archived)
# No, indeed,
at some point we will be dead and then we will not be made of anything.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 19:23, archived)
# People are very resistant to this idea.
I think you all take some perverse comfort in impending death.
The statement "everybody always dies" is typically said with a certain quiet glee.

Our brains are only kinds of machine, and we are only the processes taking place in those machines. Keeping a person alive forever is just a matter of maintaining the process in some form, any form.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 19:30, archived)
# But forever is not attainable.
I mean, we need to continually be developing just for that person and planets do not last all that long really.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:01, archived)
# Well, there are other planets
and I don't see why you need assume only one person would benefit from any such techiniques.
There's probably technically some opposite end to time, though, yes, so I may not actually mean infinitely long by forever.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:11, archived)
# A long time, yes.
I fancy it'd be arse though.

I do not want to live forever.

I would enjoy seeing my grandchildren, but I welcome death, when it comes.
(, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:32, archived)