@StewieTech This is the second thread from you about the end.It's bugging you. Well, you are not the only one, just wanted you to know.It is bugging me a LOT, but i tend to keep it at bay with a overdose of denial. I know it will happen, just nobody knows when and what's on the other side. Mortality shaped our life, and shapes still our everyday decisions. But deep down nobody has control over it, and this is where real fear begins. As other said, just make the best of your life, have babies and enjoy a bit of you passing on another life and so on. Time is unforgiving, what comes into existance, someday must day.It applies to everything, big or small.Even our biggest stars from known Universe someday will eventually die.
If anything, those questions bother me more then mortality itself. If I had the answer to some of those questions, I'd probably die in peace, knowing there was very little left to know or discover. If anyone asks me if I want to be immortal I'd say yes and no. The immortality itself doesn't interest me, it's the knowledge and things I'd experience through living for all that time that interest me.
Well spoken I find myself pondering about my and the universe's (and of everything in between) existence every now and then and the thought alone is just overwhelming. I don't think a human mind could even process the answer to such questions.
Oh my plan was that of ghost in the shell. If even possible lel. Cyborg wooo. But nah being mortal is what makes us, us. Anyway after my brother died almost 6 years a go it gave a whole new look on that whole mortality thing as he was only 23. Every day could be ones last, there is no point in thinking about it considering there is nothing to gain from thinking about or dwelling on it. I try to live my life so I can experience things I think are interesting. I don't think too much about whether I live until tomorrow or till I am immortal cyborg who can jump 5 story buildings.
Separating body and consciousness would be so weird. Humanity will have to make their own rules how to life and reinvent purpose of human being. Consciousness have no intel (experience, who are you, etc...) without brain, and brain is unfortunately aging like the rest of our body. So once consciousness "leaves" brain, I would not be "me" anymore. My experience and intel would be whatever new brain or device have stored. Unless... there would be way to dump intel of my previous brain and put it into new. Now that would be totally buttsh!tcrazy.
Allow me to quote some Futarama Leela: 'Violent outbursts' Amy: 'General slutiness' Fry: 'Thanks to denial I am immortal' As for myself, well I don't really dwell on it, when it happens it happens. The Universe did what it did for billions of years before I was born, before I had a conciousness and the Universe will continue doing what it does for billions of years after I am gone.
Drive fast, take chances. I spent years racing long distance trans oceanic yachts, and frankly its amazing I'm not dead, then, I took up off road motorcycle/car racing in the deserts of the southwest usa and baja....its safer. "Death smiles on us all, all a man can do is smile back" No regrets man, that is all you need when you die.
Live like you are dying, but save something for retirement. Also, make sure you will end up with some Grandkids eventually.
Funny thing about GitS is that the universe is based on some real predictions of where we will be from a technological standpoint in 2029. The problem is you cannot make people immortal. People have to die or we will over populate the Earth more than we already do. GitS never really tackles that aspect of it. Futurists like Ray Kurzweil believe AI is our next evolutionary step and that our human form will be left behind in a couple hundred years. In the next few decades it will be very interesting to see what really happens. As for my own mortality, it causes me anxiety to think about but I am able to shake it off and move on. My wife has full blown panic attacks about it. For me though the idea of loosing one of my children scares me far more than loosing my own life. I cannot imagine regaining the will to live if I lost them.
