Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now

[Rezwan]

What’s so great about being immortal? Seems possessive. Corrupt. Non-generative. Mechanistic. Definitively self centered. Consumer oriented.

Methuselah foundation, Christians who want to get resurrected, Reincarnation folks who want to keep coming back. Just can’t let go. Want themselves preserved, pickled, kept the same for eternity while they consume the changing world around them. Well, OK, the reincarnation folks are more diverse, but they’re still possessive and mechanistic, looking at new bodies as a vehicle for them to ride through time. I say those new bodies get their own experience, without our baggage, our soul/consciousness parasite. What an imposition. Let the new entities have their own experience.

With mortality, you have your chance, let’s see what you can do. And then clear the space for something new. Fresh. Innocent. Let your Dorian portrait burn. Let it go. What more are you going to do in an immortal span that you aren’t doing now? Just do it now. “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”. And respect the physical, contextual entity you are – respect the physical finitude. Unique. Ephemeral. Extinguished in a blaze of glory.

Well, to each his own.