The oldest human ever confirmed lived to 122. In 2006, Social Security cost us about 4.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)--$554 billion. Posted on February 22, ... disease and old age—and thus be immortal and blessed. Likes Motore. For scientists that are interested in more fundamentally reversing age, results in single cells might hold the key for understanding how to do so. Quantum Immortality? This is essentially Schrödinger's cat, with myself as the cat. It goes hand in hand with a gamut of other potential and unknowable concepts. Well, let’s consider the case of cousin Bob, who died after his car brakes failed and he slammed into a car. In addition to this fact, the phrase “quantum immortality” also has that magic word IMMORTALITY in it. In the less optimistic (and honestly probably far more realistic) version of quantum immortality… Quantum immortality is a trivial consequence of quantum suicide and therefore does not need citations to the literature. From 5,6,8 the whole "Against quantum immortality" section will disappear. If knowledge of this world somehow seeped or leaked into our own universe then it might offer up a scientific explanation of how religion and the idea of eternal life might have reached human consciousness. They just wave their hands and assert it. Your question at this time is: if quantum immortality is true, then why are those people dead? In June 2007, three separate research groups showed that old cells could be reverted to a youthful state through reprogramming (1, 2, 3). No, the MWI does not say this. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel revisits his essay on wanting to die at 75 years old. Immortality may not be considered science fiction for those born after 2050. In other words, the term "quantum immortality" is really a misnomer; it … The doctor believes that an old life filled with disability and lessened activity isn't worth living. I have pondered quantum immortality, although not necessarily out to an immortal infinity but a ripe old age for each individual but it is a conceit, I'd never heard it expressed by another or knew that it had a name. That's not a valid argument in my book. Jan 2, 2021 #46 PeterDonis. The only kind of "quantum immortality" that is possible (which is only possible if the MWI is true) does not mean "living forever", for the reasons already discussed in my subthread with @entropy1. Extending Life through technology and how it will change our perception on Death. ... Old age is no barrier here. In the more optimistic versions of quantum immortality, there are some universes where your body never wears out, and you remain reasonably healthy into old age. The prospect of death–the total and permanent destruction of one’s consciousness and self–makes a lot of people frightened, sad, or just generally bummed out. If it measures spin-up, it doesn't fire; if spin-down, it fires. Bode One 22:33, 30 May 2010 (UTC) I don't agree. Quantum suicide is a thought experiment.It originally went as follows: Say I build a suicide device, such as a gun which will fire a bullet into my head, which is triggered by a quantum event - such as a device which measures whether a particle is spin-up or spin-down. But no advocate of quantum immortality has ever done that. By only 2030, it will grow, as a percentage of GDP, by 50 percent to 6.2 percent. You have probably attended funerals, or lost friends to accidents, disease, old age. The MWI does not say people don't age, or don't die of old age. Reprogramming makes old cells young again.
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