Re: SETI public: The Immortality Option

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From: James Brown (Jim_at_Seti.Net)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 22:04:17 UTC

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    Marko and Alex (and all others).

    I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand I, personally, would like to live
    much longer than that allotted 90 years but it does seem that it would bring
    about stagnation of the race.

    Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene" points out that the genes that
    inhabit our bodies are immortal because they replicate by cloning and have
    managed to create robots (our bodies) to protect them while they project
    themselves into the future. With that in mind maybe we should learn to
    perfect cloning and the building of robots to contain us.

    What do you think?

    Argus Station: DM12jb
    James Brown
    W6KYP
    Jim_at_SETI.Net [put 'SETI' in subject line]
    www.seti.net

    > Hello Alex,
    >
    > you know the story about the fox and the sour grapes?
    >

    > > Hello Once Again Gang,
    > > In several Science Fiction novels that have
    > > explored "The Immortality Option", the ones that come to mind include
    > > "Against the Fall of Night" and "The City and the Stars" by Arthur C.
    > > Clarke, and finally "The Giants Trilogy" by James P. Hogan, didn't
    > > immortality lead to a stagnation in the societies (whether human or
    > > alien) that chose it?

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