Being an immortal pet might get rather depressing. I don’t think that’s how you dreamed your future life, and regardless of dreams, I don’t think a lot of your basic drives will be satisfied as a pet.
But better to be alive as a pet, than dead. If that’s really the trade off, then I might take it too. But that’s practically what it would take for me—a choice between being alive as a pet, or dead/
Exactly. I like life enough to suffer degradation in one aspect to reap super-massive benefit on the ‘being alive’ front. Plus, if I can hang in there, then they may be able to enhance my cognition up to parity eventually. I don’t see this situation as being permanent.
Being an immortal pet might get rather depressing. I don’t think that’s how you dreamed your future life, and regardless of dreams, I don’t think a lot of your basic drives will be satisfied as a pet.
But better to be alive as a pet, than dead. If that’s really the trade off, then I might take it too. But that’s practically what it would take for me—a choice between being alive as a pet, or dead/
Exactly. I like life enough to suffer degradation in one aspect to reap super-massive benefit on the ‘being alive’ front. Plus, if I can hang in there, then they may be able to enhance my cognition up to parity eventually. I don’t see this situation as being permanent.