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What are the minimum things you need to be willing to live for eternity? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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You would be immortal and all basic amenities essential for physical survival would be provided. You can have the age of your body according to your choosing and your mind won't blow off by accomodating endless amount of memory.

You can choose anything you desire and that too at any instant which may or may not exist in real life, like an endless supply of something or a companion with the same immortality powers as yours, but you won't be able to change it in the future and there would be no going back. Also you cannot alter your mind in any way that would enable to let you tolerate living for eternity or not get bored of things.

Ideally you would want to have everything just to be sure but by asking you the minimum requirements, it would making it more interesting to know what you think you could do without or what matters to you the most.

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[–] Cikos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

i've wondered about immortality for a while. it boils down to why would i want to be immortal and for me i just want to see and experience things. it also means that i'll experience a century living lavishly and surrounded by the perfect people i ever hoped to be with and another century where i'll be broke, alone and living in 10 sqm apartment. at this point then isnt i'm just a living library of babel of human experiences? then what kind of person i am then? a wise old sage or succumb to become a maniac? how many personalities, morals and ideology would come and pass. and how many of 'me' that lived and died? would that person still be me? would that person consciousness be the same as me right now? the more i think about immortality the more i think its just the same as death, just a different kind.