if through science and/or spiritual technological advancement, got to a point where you could be transferred from the body you have, into a new body, like an artificially created body, would you do it?
like what I'm thinking of would be that say you'd get elderly, or critically ill, have the process started and this new, empty body would be made/grown/whatever, and aged to say teens or 20's or whatever as you like, and a procedure would be done to transfer you from your old body, into the new one. mind, memories, soul, everything, you'd go to sleep, and wake up in this new body, still you, remembering everything, and go on living in that body.
I do NOT mean a "copy" system like in the movie 6th Day, but a transfer, such that if you actually died regularly, you'd be dead-dead, but that you could avoid dying from a illness or age.
so would you, and what religious/spiritual beliefs do you hold?
2006-10-03 15:08:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe in nature and reject the idea that one omnipotent, omniscient being is responsible for all that we see. I would accept this gift in a heartbeat!
2006-10-11 12:59:03 · answer #1 · answered by Speedo Inspector 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's an old Twilight Zone episode that deals with just this issue.
Two elderly people want to buy the new bodies but only have enough money for one to do it. They decide to have the man make the transfer because he can work and save until they have enough for the woman to join him. And they do it! And in the climactic moment of the episode, they decide to go back to the way they were. And it ends with the poem,
"Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
The last of life
of which the first is thee."
We are here to experience it all. Infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, old age and finally death. It is our journey and to deny yourself any part of it is in fact cheating yourself.
I have no idea what's to come. I welcome it. I welcome change. I welcome the great unknown just like I did as a kid because there's something there that I would not have known had I not made a personal leap of faith. I want it all no matter what it brings.
2006-10-03 22:24:25 · answer #2 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I probably would for a few lifetimes. It'd be neat to have time to master a number of topics and to be able to use that expertise.
Of course, if you have the ability to transfer, you almost certainly have the ability to copy, so I'd really like to have two more copies of myself so that we could work together to solve problems, each having the unified core personality but having different knowledge growing from that core (ie: one agrees to study physics, one chemistry, one biology).
atheist.
2006-10-03 22:11:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't, I sort of agree with God when He said "Man lives too long" and shortened our years to 120 max.
2006-10-03 22:16:45 · answer #4 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, sounds cool.
atheist
2006-10-03 22:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds nice but I think it would get boring after a while
2006-10-03 22:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by Cartman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i would rather have nature run its course...
no point running away from it, the law of nature is universal
a2a
2006-10-11 21:40:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep--especially if I could design it myself for vanity's sake--who wouldn't?
IB paganistical
2006-10-03 22:13:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋