[Wrizz]

Here's a thought-provoking question, if you could become immortal under the condition that you could also not commit suicide or be murder in a way or form possible, would you do it? Why or why not?

[Jiggly]

Potentially not, as I don't think I'd value my life in the same way. The finite nature of something can often make it more valuable/precious. Think about marketing strategies. Often we are told "limited time offer" and "there's only x amount left - get it while you can!". It creates a sense of urgency. I feel like I would be VERY lazy if I were immortal.

[mothered]

Let nature take It's course.

I couldn't Imagine a world of Immortality.

[skrtja]

No, I wouldn't want to witness the dumb stuff of that many people.

[M00N66]

You would be miserable. Watching the people you love fall before you, as you live eternally in your own hell. Essentially trying to escape death (becoming immortal) would actually bring it closer. Because all you will know, crave, and fear would be death. You would be obsessed with it.

[Vultra]

Nope, never will and never would.

[Burnsy420]

With the way shit is going i think our species will go extinct within the next 10 years

[chesterbeatdeath]

Biological immortality or machine immortality? I'd be fine having my brain loaded into a properly type computer and being able to interact via displays/nano-machines with family members 500 years from now. Or a Matrix type situation without the stupid battery part would also be acceptable. Biological immortality would have to come with all sorts of caveats... I need to never get sick, break bones, total an organ, etc.
But life as an intelligent machine I am down with.

[reGEN]

If you think about it, immortality is ironic in that it takes away life instead of giving more. Having limited time means that you have to make the most of it and it allows you to appreciate what is given to you. If you live forever, everything becomes entirely meaningless, history repeats itself, nothing is truly surprising or new to you anymore.

[chesterbeatdeath]

If you think about it, immortality is ironic in that it takes away life instead of giving more. Having limited time means that you have to make the most of it and it allows you to appreciate what is given to you. If you live forever, everything becomes entirely meaningless, history repeats itself, nothing is truly surprising or new to you anymore.

You have a valid point, but the machine consciousness idea still appeals to me even with a semi-nihilistic 'we've only got this one shot!' mentality. Being that the universe is just about infinite in scope of exploration, or even pure catalogism, being given an infinite amount of time to learn anything or EVERYTHING you could ever hope to know seems a wonderful concept.
My learning process is pure information gathering; I tell anyone who'll listen that kids need to be taught, not only information itself, but how to independently track down new information. Libraries were a key component in my growing up and learning how to learn better (Teach a man the card catalog and you'll pull him out a book. Teach him the Dewey decimal system and he can find every book forever.) I'd love to be given eternity to catalog everything I could possibly find out, and use that information to reverse entropy and yell, to me, the only one left to hear myself, "Let there be light!"