Immortality has always lured me. Immortality is not just living
indefinitely but is to keep struggling to be alive. It means,
you cannot die of natural factors but you can however die of you
following beings e.g. someone switching off your simulation on a
chip without you capable of doing anything coz you have not
updated yourselves with the times and the environment you are
living in.
But it should be noted that there is no thing such as 100%
immortality. No one including the environment is fully immortal
because then it would violate the law of life/energy. We will
die ultimately when all the free (usable) energy of universe is
used up and there is nothing to work upon.
I'm interested in achieving immortality because I want to see
all that humans are capable of achieving. It would be sad for me
to die before the arrival of teleportation technology, or before
I taking an intergalactic tour from earth-mars-andromeda, or
before achieving true Artificial intelligence or before we make
ourselves habitable to silicon environments, And for the other
millions of technologies and theories which are currently in
distant future. I want to see them all. I know we (currently
known as humans) will achieve all these one day but I also know
that I might die before then. It is like going for a treasure
hunt and knowing the adventure would definitely end before the
goal is achieved. It is like playing a game with ‘game
over' before ‘game end'.
There are many pathways for immortality. We haven't even
achieved 0.000001% of our total potential. There is long way to
go and I want to see it all. Currently, there are so many
methods which describe immortality and infinite more to arrive.
Some of them are:
* Running yourself into a computer simulation
* A brain transplant into your clone
* Tearing off the telomere from cells to make them immortal
* Preserving dead bodies cryogenically for future technology to
make them alive (sci-fi) stuff
* Etc
Before we delve into the theory, I would like to discuss the
term environment. ‘Environment' here is discussed in the
most abstract sense. The term takes meaning in context to the
meaning of the sentence where it is used. It can be anything
where it fits best. And yes, it is subjective here. This is
because subjectivity gives more options for evolution than
objectivity. More subjects more exploration.
Environment here can be earth, mars, carbon, silicon, bits and
bytes, differential equations, time, EM waves, etc.
The terms ‘organism' and ‘energy' is also used in an
abstract sense. They can mean anything what we want it to be. It
should be carefully observed that in this way the terms
‘environment', ‘organism' and ‘energy' are
mutually interchangeable. We can name any term anything as long
as it makes sense. In this sense, an organism or the energy can
be earth, mars, carbon, silicon, bits and bytes, differential
equations, time, EM waves, etc. Therefore,
Environment = Organism = Energy
All these three exist for the benefit of each other or in other
words, they depend on each other for its existence. They exist
mutually.
Now we take a look at the organism. But please note that you can
freely replace the term ‘organism' with
‘environment' or ‘energy' in any of the text below
or above. For example, if an organism lives or it has a life by
exchanging energy with stale or nonliving organism, we can very
well say that the environment lives but not the organism. Or
that energy lives on organism via environment as a medium.
Why do we live? Why do we come into existence? Basically, it is
the environment which drives the life. As with every system, the
environment wants to decrease its free energy. That is why it
gives birth to life (it is a part of evolution). When the life
comes into being, then the search for ultimate energy harvester
starts. This is called evolution. As the complexity in life
emerges, the organisms become better energy harvesters. They
take energy from the environment, use it thus converting the
free energy into unusable energy which is what environment
wants. Environment makes us die because it does not want to halt
the process of evolution. Evolution is very much necessary for
environment because it is the process by which new and better
energy harvesters comes into being. If an organism lives forever
he possibly will trap the resources for himself which might lead
to better organisms or which other organisms can use better.
Thus it halts one path for evolution to occur and environment
certainly does not want it. To become immortal, an organism
needs to do one of the following:
* Fool environment into thinking that it has evolved
* Constantly changing the environment (from carbon to silicon to
bits n bytes): thus making itself new (to environment) and thus
giving time to environment to analyze its feasibility.
* By constant hopping around new environments, each time it gets
into a new environment it gets more time to live
* Actually evolve into the existing environment
* Create a new environment in which it is the ultimate organism.
By ultimate organism, I mean an organism which is the best
harvester of the its current environment.
About the author:
Paras Chopra was born in Patiala, Punjab, India on 3rd June
1987. His interests lie in subjects ranging from Nanotechnology
to Biotechnology to Artificial Intelligence. His goal in life is
to achieve immortality.
Visit him at: www.paraschopra.com
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