What if I Don't Die?

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The self is your point of view, self through your eyes, from one moment to the next. But what if i didn't die? What if you just scanned my brain and a supersophisticated im or i and then you slid me out,. like now i'm not. I'm right here. And that's not even considering what potentially could happen. Like some one could take your digit ourself and torture it for the whole of eternity. E, how responsible would you be for that, for that being? A, like, you wouldn't feel their pain. It was the johnny det move. It was transcendent man om his son, i tranc i forget the

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.