/sci/ - Science & Math

The question of immortality is just a question of not aging and time. Everyone who would become immortal which I believe is possible would still die one day. The biggest scumbags will rule under their immortal rule or at least try to establish it as we know that people have this tendency of corruption. Its just a fancy name of finding new stimuli and meaning in meaningless world which even immortality wont give you. The immortals would be still killable by weapons.

Even if the immortals would be living for thousands of years and somehow survived. Every one last of them would die one day with some catastrophe in space. There is no way out of this by our knowledge and even immortality wont save you if you still belong to this world. You will also have to deal with a lot of unknown psychological burden of living too much and long and philosophical questions regarding the point of doing, being and such. The oldest one would be the loneliest one in the entire world and probably the most anhedonist of all human kind.

I would guess the meaning of life would become very fickle and shallow clinging on some strange small hopes and ways that gives you a path to follow in a process that brings new stimuli or experiences with no goal in mind.

Once you die though it never mattered if you lived for thousands of years or not. There wont be any meaning and the existential burden would just make you commit suicide probably.

Im not against it though as I do not care either way and it will probably happen anyway if we survive to that age of knowledge.