Anglerphobe wrote:Longer of life, but not immortal. Our paltry handful of decades is so little that we can't even grasp what immortality would really mean. If machines could sustain your consciousness, they couldn't do so indefinitely. You may get centuries, even millennia with good maintenance, but even ten, twenty or a hundred human lifespans back to back are the blink of an eye in the grander scheme of things. The notion of living on with no conceivable end is frankly beyond ridiculous. Stars die.
Come nano-machines or magical elixirs, you will certainly die.
Even if it was a given that we can't grasp what eternity is, I fail to see why it would be impossible for machines to sustain human consciousness indefinitely, provided they could do so in the first place. What would stop us from building a different machine to transfer our consciousness into once the life cycle of the original vessel was close to an end, and to do so again every time we needed to ad infinitum?