How to live forever? How to avoid death?

Written by Zoran Tiganj
Sunday, 09 March 2008
A man dies once in an infinitely small time interval. How do we know that? Observe this moment, recall the moment before it. What do you feel towards yourself in that moment? You are aware that is you, but you don t have any special feelings directed to that person… That time is past, that person is no more, you don t care what came of her. Her experiences, everything she was doing is permanently embodied inside of you, in your memories, your financial status, your private life, but that person is the past, if you recall a misery of some sort (for example, an injury that occurred to that person) it doesn't bother you much, you are bothered by possible consequences the injury has left upon your status in the observed momentum and the way in which you feel it will affect you in the future. You feel compassion towards that person, but you do not feel it is you, you forget the pain that used to seem unbearable, your thoughts are set only upon the present and the future, you feel as if you are not that person-and you re not… That person is dead, you only have the same recollection as she does. This is best seen in the morning when you are waking up and aware of your existence, but it is like your life is starting again from the begining…. From this, a very logical conclusion that I already stated is conveyed to us: man dies every moment, every moment is a new beginning of life who acquires only memory from the old life and it is conscience about the fact that it is continued from the old. We are so used to these changes that our entire life seems to be continued (which obviously it isn't - judging by the fact that while dreaming, we lose our connection with conscience). What to do so that you never cease being? From the introduction text it is visible how we humans are completely used to constant death and rebirth, but what happens when real death occurs? There are two problems to this: one is a permanent loss of memory (we decompose, in that manner the connections between our neurons, who are assumed to be responsible for our memory, are falling apart) second is the disappearance of the controlling mechanism-it is what seems to us as an eternal soul, which is something that is constantly being reborn, but in the moment of our death it dies forever. But that is not so bad, the controlling mechanism is just a common neuron system …. Technically, it can be compared with the operating system of a computer…. All controlling mechanisms are more or less the same-the difference in decision making between certain people is circumstanced by genetic predisposition (which belong to the controlling mechanism), by the environment and off course, the content of memory-memories. What is the use of all these conclusions? The recipe of eternal life is very simple, all you need to do is just copy your complete recollection to another person. What happens then? That person actually becomes you, your eventual death in its primary body does not affect you because you keep living inside of a different body. And that really is you… How is this possible? Imagine that tonight, while sleeping, you are kidnapped by scientists who copy the contents of your memory into someone else (who is your clone), kill you and put your clone into your bed…. When you would wake up in the morning, you wouldn't have a clue of what happened and you would keep up with your normal life. While asleep you are dead, only the memories are important because they are representing the essence of man-memories must not be lost so that man would not cease to be, the soul is an irrelevant controlling mechanism that is almost the same in all people. Then again, if scientists would offer you eternity by copying your memories to someone else, it doesn't really seem to you as the right solution. You are dieing, what use do you have of your memories surviving… Even if those memories are actually you, to humans an eternal life acquired by the method of copying memories does not seem as a solution…. But, there exists one more theory which could make eternal life possible. Let us assume that scientists of the future are capable to build a device that has all the traits of a human head. It has eyes, ears, nose, mouth, gravity centre and off course, the brain. We connect that device to another man, parallel with his brain. The artificial brain was constructed for that man specifically (it is conducting functions identical to his brain while genetic predispositions were taken in account). To the artificial brain we copy all of his memories. Now he has two brains that work identical, he is thinking with both at the same time and those thoughts are completely the same-because both brains are the same. After some time we shut down his senses in his original brain. He is left only with those that are already inside of his head. In time that man gets the feeling that he, his soul is situated inside the new, artificial brain because he is looking, listening with it, it contains the balance centre which holds a consequence of man relating with his new brain, the whole head. Now, let us shut down his original brain…. That isn't a blow to him because he keeps thinking with the artificial brain and is understanding the death of the original one as, for example, an amputation of a small finger…. After the death of the original brain, man keeps living normally with an artificial one which is, in theory off course, eternal and indestructible…. 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