Guaranteed Afterlife

[Avenida105]

After watching the matrix trilogy, and the tron movies along with the new series tron: uprising I came up with a little question I've been asking around.

If you had the choice to "dump" your conscience, memories and subconscious into a virtual simulator, would you do it? Or would you rather face absolute demise and completely seize to exist?

I've been getting interesting answers from my friends. Although many people believe in a religion, which promises the possibility of an afterlife why did so many people decide to seize to exist? Humanity has always hoped and liked to believe for an afterlife in which things are better and problems are long gone. Now with the advances in medicine we managed to increase the average life span of a person from about 40 years to 75 years over the past century, more progress than all previous human eras. As for technology we have mane more progress in this past decade than any other time. By now you can start assuming that I'm theorizing about immortality, but its more than that, immortality or prolonged living would in return create over population. Now if everything was stored in cyberspace we could eliminate the overpopulation problem. If we spent thousand of years creating multiple systems of beliefs to follow a path of doubt and uncertainty, then why not guarantee ourselves an afterlife.

[CharlieHorse]

I don't know. It would have to depend on a lot of things. Conditions, etc. I'm ok right now to stay in my own body.

[Miserabilia]

Mmmmmnnnng that's such an impossible question to answer
xD

First of all, I'm not scared of death, I accept that I could die at any moment and completely seace to be aware or exist at all, I'm okay with it;
but the idea of eternal simulated life is so damn appealing.

Than again, I think that the human brain is not meant for eternal life; you'd go insane, and than have to live insane forever.

So I guess, no , I wouldn't.

[Typhlosion]

Do I get the chance to dump subconcious and personality and change body? If so, YES!
No? Well... let's see how I will perceive myself in the future.
Now? Sure, why not?

On immortality

If it's absolute, that's a hard question. Probably not.
If I can kill myself, sure.
If death = reset, YES!

[ninja789]

Unless I can choose to eventually end it then I wouldnt want it

[Cygnus]

That would be an interesting prospect, but meh, I'd rather seize to exist. Why? Because everything must come to an end, I won't force my life to extend more than it should. Even if it is in cyberspace.

[Stronk Serb]

I agree with Cheesee here, except I am already partially insane, so going insane in the simulation would mean nothing.

[abc983055235235231a]

Not actually answering your question, but Vanilla Sky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/) is a movie that deals with that sort of concept

[Star Wolf]

I honestly feel something like that would be like being trapped in a purgatory or limbo of sorts. Nothing around me would be real. I would rather die than just exist in a virtual world, because there wouldn't be really any reason to live on when nothing you do has an influence or a purpose.

[ksdnfkfr]

I would need to be able to sample it first to see if I like it. Then if I decide I like it and am implanted after death, have the option to terminate it if I get tired of it.

A little ot. I watched an interview of some well known author or journalist who was in his 80's and looked healthy and was very sharp. The interviewer asked him if there was a pill that would make him 25 years younger if he would take it.
And the old guy said "absolutely not"
The interviewer seemed surprised and asked "why not?!"
And the old gut said, "because I'm tired of life".
He wasn't depressed or suicidal or anything like that, he had just simply gotten tired of living.

I think somewhere along the line in that simulation, whether it was 10 years or 1000 years, eventually I would probably say, this sucks, I don't want to play anymore, please terminate this program.

[Miserabilia]

I would need to be able to sample it first to see if I like it. Then if I decide I like it and am implanted after death, have the option to terminate it if I get tired of it.

A little ot. I watched an interview of some well known author or journalist who was in his 80's and looked healthy and was very sharp. The interviewer asked him if there was a pill that would make him 25 years younger if he would take it.
And the old guy said "absolutely not"
The interviewer seemed surprised and asked "why not?!"
And the old gut said, "because I'm tired of life".
He wasn't depressed or suicidal or anything like that, he had just simply gotten tired of living.

I think somewhere along the line in that simulation, whether it was 10 years or 1000 years, eventually I would probably say, this sucks, I don't want to play anymore, please terminate this program.

Yea this basicly :yes: