Throughout our history, humans have always feared death. Immortality was the goal. Humans souls have constantly searched for a way to be alive-forever. Humans are social creatures, ostracization is not what they look forward to. After you're dead, you're physically-and eventually mentally, left out of the lives of the living. Back from the days of the Qin Dynasty, emperor Shi-huangdi, searched far and wide for the elixir that would permanently extend his time on earth. However, such immortality has never been a possibility-until now. Cloning and created consciousness (which may or not be adapted by the human kind) have begun to develop. Making duplicates or just having our consciousness live while our physical bodies decay is an attempt to live forever. Is this the right thing to do? Are we meant to unnaturally expand our lives?
Is living forever really the answer to all of our problems?
Mortality is almost a gift. Mortality is what makes human life so beautiful, so fragile. It's constantly all or nothing. You're either alive, or dead. There is not yet an in between-but at the rate technology is going, there soon may be. Currently, nothing, nobody is going to last forever. All we honestly have is right now. RIGHT NOW. This. Right here. This is the only thing guaranteed; and it is fleeting. That’s a scary, dark, beautiful thought. All we have is now. The gods cringe at the thought of mortality, as do we. However, if we were immortal, we’d spend lifetimes waiting for a better tomorrow. As we only have a limited amount of time, we make sure not to spend ALL of it hoping for better timing. Everything serves a purpose, as does death.
You're born. You live. You die.
Some thing may happen after that, but there's currently no empirical evidence regarding this.
Some thing may happen after that, but there's currently no empirical evidence regarding this.
The only thing we're absolutely certain about is...
You're born. You live. You die.
Where would the complexities of cloning fit into this? Where would an immortal conscious but deteriorating body go in this currently logical order? What about the natural? Are humans manipulating too much, too fast? The current development in technology seems to make our lives easier than ever. Is this necessary? Is this useful? There are so many ethical, social, scientific things to think about regarding this. Have we let our technology develop to the point it is no longer controllable?
If scientists were to create a device from which you could achieve what your forefathers desperately attempted to capture-immortality- would you?
Would you really want to live forever?
You're born. You live. You die.
Where would the complexities of cloning fit into this? Where would an immortal conscious but deteriorating body go in this currently logical order? What about the natural? Are humans manipulating too much, too fast? The current development in technology seems to make our lives easier than ever. Is this necessary? Is this useful? There are so many ethical, social, scientific things to think about regarding this. Have we let our technology develop to the point it is no longer controllable?
If scientists were to create a device from which you could achieve what your forefathers desperately attempted to capture-immortality- would you?
Would you really want to live forever?
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