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by rabidrat
3590 days ago
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Not all of us want to live again in some unknown future without any sense of continuity or surviving relationships. Death is ultimately inevitable, even if a miracle like cryonics could postpone it the first time. The author's entire point is that we should accept this inevitability, not try to avoid it by any psychological means we can conjure. Only then can we respond appropriately. |
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What makes you say this? There is no fundamental aspect of physics that makes death inevitable except perhaps on the very very very long term (heat-death timescales).
Understanding and controlling every aspect of human biology is an engineering challenge. It's obviously extremely difficult, but we have no reason to suspect it's intractable.