Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26484417-20160229225527/@comment-27632937-20170112130933

DYBAD wrote: Koromau wrote: DYBAD wrote: Or an expert neuronal rewiring, to simply remove boredom and grief from the equation (experiences remain equally vivid no matter how many times, and sadness of loss fades on its own within minutes). Well I personally wouldn't consider that living anymore... you may as well just feed yourself infinite pleasure and lie in bed for eternity and that would be a truely hollow existance. You may as well just wipe your mind and start again if you were going to mess with it. That way you could experience everything new again and it would be a more organic and natural experience. Grief is a part of life, its the terrible moments in life that allow the best moments to truely shine as cliche as that might seem.

You would be just as alive and active as anyone else, just without the psycho-emotional degeneration of boredom and grief. Actually, you would be significantly more alive than normal people, since your enjoyment of life would not be slowly eaten away by the accumulation of experiences. It doesn't mean you would lock yourself into a lotus eater machine, it just means you would still have a happy life even if your options are limited, and even if loved ones leave you one after the other (focus on the present).

There's nothing wrong with eternal youth and health, is there ? Well, this is simply the psychological counterpart, the eternal youth/health of the mind balancing that of the body, removing all the drama from immortality directly from the source without the need for additional tricks (though they do help). I don't disagree that your solution is the quickest most effective way of solving the problem. It's perfectly logical, but I fear you would lose your motivation to do anything since everything you want is already there for you. It's like the phrase "the journey is more important than the destination" It's not that the destination isn't eveything you hoped it would be but without goals your life would become directionless. Boredom after all is a disatisfaction and a lack of interest in where you are/what you are currently doing. So you could theorise that without boredom you wouldn't get the dissatisfation that motivates you to find something to do.

You'd be happy though I guess.... but I would never go that route. The main reason I'm against it is because immortality was only appealing to me in the first place due to my strong desire to try EVERYTHING. The thought that my life could end without me seeing everything it had to offer saddens me greatly. So while you're technically not wrong I am curious on how you imagine life would be like after such a change.