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The Moral Questions of Artificial Immortality (Artificial Biological Negligible Senescence)
This is not the A.I. most people would be talking about. Here, A.I. (Artificial Immortality) is also referred to as A.B.N.S (Artificial Biological Negligible Senescence). Immortality, here, does not cover invulnerability or indestructibility.
1. What is the purpose of living so long?
A 3 year old kid can imagine how it is like being a 10 year old, a 10 year old can visualize how it is like being a 20 year old, a 20 year old can make sense of how it is like being a 50 year, a 50 year old can plan for his retirement when he is 80 because they have living and existing examples. However, a 10 year will think the 3 year does not make sense, regarding his/ her past naiveness and tantrums. A 20 year old will think little of the 10 year old. We hear statements like “do you think I am 10 years old” or “don’t take me as a green salad teen”. A 50 year old will see the 20 year old as an immature green-horn. An 80 year old will regret his years as a 50 year old. If we die at 3, we would never know how to think like 30. Likewise, many people who have grown forward by 80 would have realized that 1/2 a century ago, they would have un-do many regrets if they knew — even by a few critical details that is un-reparable.
The human life is really too short for an average human to make sense of her / his life. It has to be extended. Longevity does not mean aging nor long or prolonged decline.
There 4 types of people who do not regret:
1. those who have not learned and realized curse of misery, and would suffer the needless same
2. those who are determined to be immortal non-progressive, foolhardy psychopaths
3. those who have poor memory
4. those who decide to wallow in delusional positivism limbo"""
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. — Confucius (551 BC to 479 BC)
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The point is perception changes, we do not know how we will be when we are 300 years old. The question itself may even be invalidated once we live long enough to change our minds about it.
