it's not much difference than now, is it?
Yes it is different, actually. Now we can live in a way that maximizes our chances of living long enough to see the time when we beat aging, if we ever do. Even if we don't in our lifetimes, we'll still have made the right choice, it was a calculated gamble.
now we have hope, then we'd find hope.
I don't think so. There'd be no hope if beating aging, by any means (including uploading) was impossible, unless we gave in to delusions of a God and life after death, but to me, that's when we die, that's when we kill our capacity to think independently and become prone to all sorts of mind washing.
Now it seems so far and almost impossible, then it will be I dunno, clinging to something else? saying you can't prove it's impossible? :/
So you're saying that we're immortalists, right now, because we need to cling to something? That our need to cling to something is so strong that we could have turned out to have any religion or some other delusional belief instead of being immortalists? That the fact that we believe in material immortality, instead of some religion, is because of pure chance?
Edited by forever freedom, 19 February 2010 - 07:00 PM.