Living indefinitely doesn't mean being human indefinitely - at least I hope not.
Being biological limits us to the surface of the Earth: every other place in the Universe (including of Earth) is hostile to us. We have to consume other lifeforms to survive; which strikes me as bad mannered, if not outright unethical. Our genes are programmed to kill us slowly by ageing, prevent us from regrowing severed limbs, and so on and so forth. Amazing as this product of evolution is, my body is the ultimate limit to ambition.
If it wasn't for techtelligence 1.0 (i.e. our collective brain power) our species would have gone extinct millennia ago.
My current quest is to live long enough to gain choices. What they may be is a matter of (often wild) speculation. Which can be fun. So this is a topic I will definitely return to.
There's a relevant track on this album: track 5 "i want to be a machine".
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