During my youth I remember how often I would not be able to sleep at night thinking of death. I would end up in my parents room asking questions they did not have the answer to. Death is such an impossible thing to imagine. For an agnostic like myself it can lead to depressing thoughts. I saw life being pointless in every single meaning and any meaning I could try and give it as a fallacy. I eventually reached a thought process that worked for me as a killer motivator, and when I say killer I mean it. The identity shift is still in progress, but I have yet to find someone who shares the same recognition of why this belief is so important. Its hard to explain to most people as it requires a lot of beliefs about the world. But for an agnostic/atheist who is up to date with technology I believe there must be someone who can relate.
I wonder if my thought process stems directly from one of our core values as humans. Survival.
I think we can all agree that within our lifetimes shit will get weird. There are tens or hundreds of different routes of extending our consciousness and its possible you and I are growing up in the possible inbetween stage of extended human consciousness. If I told you someone alive today would live to 1,000 years old that may make you question the probability of that achievement. However, if I said someone alive today would make it to 170, that is not very far fetched given our current rate of change and advancement. Now if within 50 years we extend life another 50 years that means there is another 50 years for technological advances to continue to extend life. With this knowledge 1,000 years does not look to far off after all. And if you can look back a thousand and forward a thousand, its pretty obvious life will be unimaginably different to the extent where mortality is not a worry.
Given you accept the chance of this possibility, compared with the chance that this treatment does not reach everyone, or barely misses your age then this makes the investment of this expected 72 years to be minuscule in the possible chance that the cutoff is made. Given this knowledge I think I can either set myself up with as much money as possible, hopefully reaching the point of funding the research necessary or accept death. I cannot devote myself to any deity because there is no ounce of realness in that for me. What is real is this chance, and thats something that can make me give up drinking, videogames, never smoke, and push me nonstop to fight for my survival.
That is my purpose, and my thought process and my WHY. I have shared it with a few close friends who didn't fully grasp the concept which is why I am sharing it for the first time online.
I wonder if my thought process stems directly from one of our core values as humans. Survival.
I think we can all agree that within our lifetimes shit will get weird. There are tens or hundreds of different routes of extending our consciousness and its possible you and I are growing up in the possible inbetween stage of extended human consciousness. If I told you someone alive today would live to 1,000 years old that may make you question the probability of that achievement. However, if I said someone alive today would make it to 170, that is not very far fetched given our current rate of change and advancement. Now if within 50 years we extend life another 50 years that means there is another 50 years for technological advances to continue to extend life. With this knowledge 1,000 years does not look to far off after all. And if you can look back a thousand and forward a thousand, its pretty obvious life will be unimaginably different to the extent where mortality is not a worry.
Given you accept the chance of this possibility, compared with the chance that this treatment does not reach everyone, or barely misses your age then this makes the investment of this expected 72 years to be minuscule in the possible chance that the cutoff is made. Given this knowledge I think I can either set myself up with as much money as possible, hopefully reaching the point of funding the research necessary or accept death. I cannot devote myself to any deity because there is no ounce of realness in that for me. What is real is this chance, and thats something that can make me give up drinking, videogames, never smoke, and push me nonstop to fight for my survival.
That is my purpose, and my thought process and my WHY. I have shared it with a few close friends who didn't fully grasp the concept which is why I am sharing it for the first time online.
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