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The Moral Questions of Artificial Immortality (Artificial Biological Negligible Senescence)

Mi'kail Eli'yah
26 min readJul 15, 2018

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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.

Aging spares no one, until someone solves that puzzle.

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.

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Mi'kail Eli'yah
Mi'kail Eli'yah

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