I think that it will matter person to person. I’m the type of person that loves learning, and develops new interests all the time. I can’t imagine getting bored with life even after a few centuries. I’m forty-three years old. I can easily imagine three times my current lifetime.
I feel like my memory work similarly to how you describe. As time goes on, my memories are more abstract, with the freshest having the most detail. I don’t think that that is strictly necessary, but instead a limitation of our wetware.
This is just under the assumption that our brains will continue to function as they do now, which I don’t think is a great assumption. With augmented memory, we could have a complete personal record to access and augment our memory.
I’m sure that there will be people that choose to die, and others that choose to deadhead, and those that choose to live with only a rolling century of memories. None of those sound appealing to my imagination at this point.
″ I can’t imagine getting bored with life even after a few centuries.”
Ok, but that’s not a lot of time, is it? Furthermore, this isn’t even a question of time. For me, no finite time is enough. It’s the mere fact of ceasing to exist. Isn’t it simply horrifying? Even if you live a million healthy years, no matter, the fact is that you will cease to exist one day. And then there will be two options. Either your brain will be “healthy” and therefore will dread death as much as it does now, or it will be “unhealthy” and welcome death to relieve it’s poor condition. To me both options seem horrifying—what matters more is that the present me wants to live forever with a healthy, not tired of life, not with dementia or Alzheimer’s, sane brain forever.
Like I said in my post, as time tends to infinite, so do memories, so there will inevitably be a time where the brain no longer holds up. Even the best brain that science could buy in a far future, so to speak. It seems that we will have to cease to exist inevitably.
“I’m sure that there will be people that choose to die, and others that choose to deadhead, and those that choose to live with only a rolling century of memories. None of those sound appealing to my imagination at this point.”
The latter actually sounds kinda appealing to me, if only I was more convinced that it was possible...
I think that it will matter person to person. I’m the type of person that loves learning, and develops new interests all the time. I can’t imagine getting bored with life even after a few centuries. I’m forty-three years old. I can easily imagine three times my current lifetime.
I feel like my memory work similarly to how you describe. As time goes on, my memories are more abstract, with the freshest having the most detail. I don’t think that that is strictly necessary, but instead a limitation of our wetware.
This is just under the assumption that our brains will continue to function as they do now, which I don’t think is a great assumption. With augmented memory, we could have a complete personal record to access and augment our memory.
I’m sure that there will be people that choose to die, and others that choose to deadhead, and those that choose to live with only a rolling century of memories. None of those sound appealing to my imagination at this point.
″ I can’t imagine getting bored with life even after a few centuries.”
Ok, but that’s not a lot of time, is it? Furthermore, this isn’t even a question of time. For me, no finite time is enough. It’s the mere fact of ceasing to exist. Isn’t it simply horrifying? Even if you live a million healthy years, no matter, the fact is that you will cease to exist one day. And then there will be two options. Either your brain will be “healthy” and therefore will dread death as much as it does now, or it will be “unhealthy” and welcome death to relieve it’s poor condition. To me both options seem horrifying—what matters more is that the present me wants to live forever with a healthy, not tired of life, not with dementia or Alzheimer’s, sane brain forever.
Like I said in my post, as time tends to infinite, so do memories, so there will inevitably be a time where the brain no longer holds up. Even the best brain that science could buy in a far future, so to speak. It seems that we will have to cease to exist inevitably.
“I’m sure that there will be people that choose to die, and others that choose to deadhead, and those that choose to live with only a rolling century of memories. None of those sound appealing to my imagination at this point.”
The latter actually sounds kinda appealing to me, if only I was more convinced that it was possible...