The Immortalists

by Socrates on May 13, 2010

Following the Turning into Gods teaser trailer for Jason Silva’s doc concept, I am posting another short documentary by him called The Immortalists.

In this short 8 min documentary, Jason shares his search for an answer to the problem of death and the failure by all religions and philosophies to provide him with an acceptable one. Thus Jason turned to interview a group of scientists and futurists, whom he broadly refers to as the immortalists, who claim that the problem of death can and eventually will be solved by advancements in technology.

Enjoy!

And how about you?

Do you want to live forever?

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  • http://www.singularia.com.au James

    This video seems to be promoting a neo-fundamental materialist religion where the only god is ME, and promising a digital paradise.
    Key Words: Narcissist – Hubris – Arrogance
    With there now being nearly 7, 000, 000, 000 humans on this unique little blue-green planet, which has been poisoned, trashed and driven into the 6th Extinction by our out of balance predation and thoughtlessness, we have a few details to attend to before granting ourselves immortality. If eliminating death and aspiring to live indefinitely would be your quest go for it and good luck but it will all come to tears in the end.

  • http://www.SingularitySymposium.com/ Socrates

    Greetings James,

    Let me start by saying that you are correct in observing that our little blue planet has indeed been trashed and poisoned. Yet, to me, it doesn’t follow that the quest to overcome aging and transcend death “will all come to tears in the end. “ Similarly, I still haven’t given up that humanity may one day actually clean up our act, stop poisoning the planet and exterminating each other (or other species).

    The world is indeed full of pain and suffering but we ought not to omit the fact that it is at least equally (if not more) full of overcoming. Thus, I agree with Kurzweil that overcoming or transcending our personal abilities via all kinds of innovation and technology is what has taken us out of the caves and up to the Moon and back. Today, a child born in Calcutta has a better life-expectancy than any Pharaoh or absolute monarch of the old empires. Chances are that both of us live better and more comfortable lives than Rockefeller did, and our ability to satisfy easily our most basic biological needs has lead to an unparalleled burst of spontaneous creativity among the human race.

    Postponing death has been a slow and steady part of technological progress. In the last 2,000 years we have almost quadrupled our longevity and have almost doubled it in the last 100 years. Thus, it seems only natural to me that, as technology accelerates, we are going to live longer and longer. Eventually we may reach a point, which Aubrey de Grey calls the “longevity escape velocity,” which will allow us to — should we choose so – delay death indefinitely. I for one don’t see myself coming “to tears” at that prospect alone.

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