Man vs Immortality

A day or so ago, I was having a useless argument with my friend, which later turned into the subject “immortality” . Well he’s basically a pessimistic asshole , and wants to live his so called “delusion” in the present only , while considering me , I am the totally opposite (a bigger optimistic asshole) . But as my friend says “It’s basically a delusion, till anything is proved.” He’s right on his part, but then it does not mean we stop trying (Then he doesn’t even say to stop trying also, he’s basically a retarded jerk).

Well you could say, we all are immortal, in one sense, as our existence is merely defined on a relative basis. I.e. If ‘you’ or ‘I’ were to exist or not to exist, it makes no difference to this universe and doesn’t have an effect on it in any way. (So hey there, don’t you think you are someone special ^_^.)

Some might find ‘immortality’ insane and sordid , but I want to make one thing clear, ‘basically’ all the research going on in the world regarding immortality and rejuvenation is not for us to live forever and play the role of god, but to increase the lifespan of human life. (Why are you going for cosmetic surgery girl ? ). We are mortals because, as time passes by “aging” occurs, i.e. the accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells and organs. The cells have a finite lifespan based on the number of doublings the cell undergoes before, cellular senescence occurs. So basically we want to reverse that damage. If this is possible in the near future, and after a point we don’t “age”, it does not mean that you won’t die if I were to chop your brain down, but yea u might still survive, if I preserved your brain only and burnt the rest of your body.

Immortality can be divided into two ways – physical and biological. Physical immortality “is a state of immortality, that allows a person to avoid death and maintain conscious thought through a source other than organic life, say a computer.” Whereas biological immorality is the absence of aging. A cell or an organism which ceases to age at some point is biologically immortal.

Talking about physical immortality first, a person is considered dead according to the ‘information theoretic ‘criterion only if the information in the brain is not reversible by any means. That is the structures in the brain that encode memory and personality have been so disrupted that it is no longer possible in principle to restore them to an appropriate functional state. This is so because, memory; personality and identity are stored in cellular structures, principally inside the brain. It is widely accepted that brain activity is known to stop and later resume, under certain conditions.

Coming to biological immortality now, remember that life defined as biologically immortal is still susceptible to death (accidents, disease etc.) Biological immortality is basically achieved by preventing cells from reaching senescence. Biologically immortality is no dream or fantasy, as some notable species are already biologically immortal. Species such as Hydra , Turritopis Nutricula (a jellyfish) are biologically immortal.

Well you could so easily say , that as no remarkable results have been seen (some are there but) as yet , this all is bullshit and may turn out to be total waste in the future , but I think I have given you enough evidence that it might ‘not’ be a no horse race. The age old example that , that “did the people in the 19th (yea not the 15th or 16th) century , think that , the world will be connected like this through the internet , or we’ll be able to send our robots to mars and do research there ?” is valid here also . I am not in a position to comment whether the soul exists or not, but if the soul exists , it must be a universal concept , and should be applied to every “living” creature in the universe , so in the end it all cancels out like infinities in maths ^_^ . But I myself don’t find any difference between a wood frog, a human being, or a future android (they should or will possess the term known as “soul”, and what about a cloned baby ? ).

Food and Sex ? Money in the case of one specific "ingenious" species too.

Well the topic of the post is random. But we are indeed animals aren’t we ? There is no denying the fact that we are.

OK , enough of crap(crap in the sense as the topic of the post is random). So now the question is why did I start a blog? Well the answer to that is , there isn’t any specific reason. Yes this is going to be one wild random blog. I will try my level best to talk “sense,” so ill limit the “science fiction” going on in my head and my other wild dreams and fantasies. Not wild in the conventional sense of the meaning of the word wild, but it’ll still be wild : ) .

So let’s start with existence , I wont waste any more time. So then what is existence to you ? Do you even know this existence and world of yours might be the one as exactly and appropriately depicted in the famous science fiction movies like “The Matrix” , or a totally new world created for us by some aliens (God? ) . A false sort of existence u might say. But it doesn’t make a difference if we were living in a computer generated world , or the universe truly exists or maybe even “existed !.” Well lets cut this science fiction shit out today , but there is about a 20 % chance that we are living in a computer simulation : ). ( don’t worry ,those are the calculations done by scientists )

So then when we have no idea about our existence, i.e why do we exist ? Or do we have some idea ? Well , to be true , till now we don’t . We haven’t even able to solve the mystery of the origin of the universe as of now, leave aside the question “why does this universe exists, and why are we here “. Well you could answer in one simple line known as the “Anthropic principle “ which states that – “ The universe is as it is, because if it was not then we wouldn't be here to observe it, or that the very presence of intelligent life constrains the universe to be as it is.

Now the question is, does it end there ?

Thinking about existence is really scary, you might have gone through the same experiences. Well , then the question arises , what do we do now ? Money , Food and Sex, or shall I say lots of ” money , food and sex” ( respect and honor are complimentary ) . But then is that where it all ends? Or wasting your life in helping others and earn the crown “of a totally selfless person “ and be remembered forever ? Or be a total selfish obnoxious “fuck”, so worried about yourself, your self esteem and ego and nothing else .

Well ill drop it out here then, if anyone is interested in talking about existence further, I am totally ready to go , this was just a basic intro :P . I don’t really care if you agree with me or not , or you care to comment or anything , but yea if something comes in your mind , whatever that might be related to the subject , I would please ask you to raise your point . Thanks for tolerating the above post till now : ). As far as the name of the blog is concerned - there always arises some uncertainty in things, at the microscopic level and at the macroscopic level and we all know how weird this world is ^_^ .