But could you really “die” by choosing to do so ? Because, if you are immortal, therefore even if you do not have a precise purpose “now” you always have the chance in like 250 years for example to do what you wanted to do there …
However, as the second post says, I am more interested in the issues our “finite” being could have with an “unlimited” lifespan . Because, as we are a finite being, therefore our actions are limited in nature, in space, and should be in time.
But more by the fact that even if we have mechanical and electronic pieces or components that allows us to store more data, it’s the purpose of the stored data and the organization that matters, I think.
What I mean is that if time become a null variable, as it never end, you could experience everything, an infinite amount of times, therefore, as you already did x*infinite times, wouldn’t it be like you only did once ? Like a number, with an infinite amount of decimals. It’s impossible to go over the second number if you don’t chose to deliberately broke the sequence…
An human brain, basically speaking doesn’t store the data you can “remember” but recreate memories by associating basic items together, in the order it appeared or alike in the past time.
What I meant is that a choice, is one only because you know you cannot do in a different way after. A choice would be time related because, as nobody had yet the luck to live forever, you know that you’ll die one day. You do things “now” because you know you may not be able to do them afterwards. It brings all the meaning to the choice, I think.
But as you said, of course a “choice” is an intelligible thing, therefore, infinite in it’s being. “Like an Idea”. But the moment when you choose, is important, therefore a choice wouldn’t be time related ?
Like Bergson said, an Orange was “Orange” before we even invent the word, […]. So this is one point, the second point is before I choose to buy this particularly expensive chocolate at the supermarket, wasn’t “there” before “I did”, so this choice isn’t it time-related ?
Hence :
What makes the value of a choice then ?
Psychologically speaking, choice do not exist, as pure “free will”, but yet we can make pseudo-choices, by comparing different values and data…
Once, when I was looking at a documentary, a beardy guy that was working on his “vision of immortality” said the following :
I deeply think he’s mistaking everything, because of this time-related-choice idea.
I agree with MathIsACircle’s post, by saying that being able to live forever, it will void your humanity as to be human you should be able to process choices, but (if I am right), a choice can only be made because you are doomed some day by being killed, or dying in some bed. Therefore, “pushing” humanity to a new height, as aletheia said, is meaningless, because it would be equal to create a new specie then, “humans” wouldn’t be immortal, it would be something else …
I am so messy, too many languages in my head -_-;