[hbt]

the assumption the author makes is that longevity will only bring us more time and that pretty much everything about the human condition will remain the same.

It is tedious to be human. The amount of time dedicated to maintaining one's body even when young and healthy can feel tiresome.

Longevity is not about extending our misery but about finding a way out of these limited meat bags.

Perhaps there is a meaning and the universe is not absurd, maybe our minds are simply too stupid to figure it out. Maybe if we extended our brains, increased our intelligence...

Only time will tell. That's why we need more of it. That's why it's worth putting up with the daily bullshit called living until it reaches the breaking point.

[oliv__]

What makes life so interesting and great in my opinion, are the limitations --and the boundaries of those limitations that people push further and further-- of these meat bags we carry eveywhere with us.

[chc]

I feel like this is just "best of all worlds" thinking rather than an actual love of physical limitation. If it were the latter, why wouldn't we just start cutting off limbs and really get some interesting limitations?