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Re: IMMORTALITY (will it ever happen?)
[Re: jcl]
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11/16/12 07:42
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I think many are looking at it the wrong way. If you think you are no more than matter(your body) than you are not immortal. But when you find the energy part of you, which in reality is you, you are immortal and can then go on to meet those who have long left this 3rd plane and are out there in another plane of the universe. Everybody agrees we are all star stuff, but forgets star stuff is not just matter, it is a constant changing of energy to matter and back.
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Re: IMMORTALITY (will it ever happen?)
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11/16/12 09:25
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(ok, I considder myself more than just a lump of matter. The difference between life and dead matter is, that life actively counters a gain in Entrophy by using metabolism. Dead matter does not, at least not by some purpose.)
Anyhow. In Evolution species evolve by adaption to an environment. If the environment is very very static, and there are almost no natural predetor, a species can optimize to live an almost immortal life -> at the cost of having to have a very simple organic structure.
Such is the case with fungi and sponges.
But mammals dont live in such an environment. Also their bodystructure is much more complex and fragile. Immortality would come at an energetic cost that would make the mammal have a hard time to compete against fast-generation populations.
As I said, long living self repairing tissue is very energy intensive, and likely to operate very slow (metatobic rate) and be clunky due to needed heavy protection against environmental factors. (Giant Turtles went into that niche)
Such a species is not very fit against its short living competitors. -> who can develop fast growing, powerful organs, that dont need to be build to last very long. (Like a Formula 1 car vs a Diesel Traktor)
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Re: IMMORTALITY (will it ever happen?)
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11/18/12 18:26
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people want to live forever cause of fear of the unknown Is there live after death ? If you fear the unknown, killing yourself would be the solution to that problem. People rather want to live longer because they are curious how the world will look like in 1000 years from now. Agreed. looking at the last 150 years and the exponential growth contained within, I can only attempt to imagine what could be if we restrain from destroying ourselves in 1000 years.
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