posted November 03, 2022 06:15 PM
Condolences for your loss. 
I was just talking with someone about if humanity could become more than clever simians that are still base animals for better and worse (utopia impossible) if we could upload our consciousness, or at least create implants (which would necessitate some form of neurological changes as well) to perceive higher dimensions, which might allow to perceive other lives (be it from reincarnation or in parallel universe/dimensions), just one of many possibilities.
A nice thought, though we did think of the challenges that would come with it (like probably being considered property, but there are always around that, especially if you become smarter and better than your maker).
When I look at the world, I see things that I don't think many at LL could handle even thinking about, and it worries me about spiritual dimensions, which I presume are interlinked with if not a reflection of, but one did share his NDE (which he was too young to have heard of yet and didn't even realize he was out of his body until later, and his mother confirmed her actions that he witnessed while outside his body). He was scared of a fluorescent clock (probably saw them as animal eyes in the dark on an instinctual nature), and when the power went off, he turned to look at it, but the fear he expected did not come. That's one good sign at least that fear is not necessary there, and so it's not a realm of savagery and necessary evil as our mortal world is.
And maybe if we could perceive such dimensions, and remove the need to feed, we might not be so predatory. Perhaps, though not definitively, we might lose some pleasure, but is that an argument against it, anymore than the pleasure of hard drugs despite the pain they inflict on self and others?
Kind of Zen Buddhist. Actually, I recall hearing of some mummified Zen Buddhists that some Buddhists consider still alive, just in deep meditation. They went through a process while still alive (diet and such that basically removed anything bacteria could feed on, thus staving off decomposition) that in theory it would be possible to revive them in the future as they haven't decayed. I suppose the transhumanist dream isn't that different from such a concept.
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At the rate things are going, assuming a lack of major solar flare or cosmic ray storm (as Earth's magnetic field is slowly changing, making us even more vulnerable to such things), among countless other things, it could happen should you live to see 100. Humans are resilient, still alive despite all the disasters, whether inflicted upon us by a cold universe or self-inflicted. Some of it is amazing and inspiring and shows me good in humanity that goes with the savagery (just as nature is as awesomely beautiful as it is nightmarish at other times). The technology keeps advancing faster and faster, and AI (though I think it's much more flawed than many do consider how nonsensical it sometimes act--but maybe it has a superior reasoning that our animal brains can't comprehend) advance it even faster.
Here, this might make you feel good...I don't care if it was ultimately about a promo (for a movie of a dystopian future, even if people could live in robotic bodies if desired--the manga/comics have helped many overcome or handle various disabilities and recovery from trauma, so it does more good than mumbling positive affirmations), this still did some good, and another example of the advances being made (over by the 2 minute mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnFNxx4Exw&ab_channel=20thCenturyStudios
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