On the topic of immortality, I would like to never age past my prime, as well as being immune to all diseases. I wouldn't, however, want to be completely incapable of dying, but I also wouldn't want to have to make the decision "I die now" in order for my existence to end. I would simply want to be a normal guy who simply never grows older than ~25 and never gets sick. If that wasn't an option, I would be willing to forego all of the above conditions except never dying; I wouldn't accept immortality if I could never die.
* Descan giggles at people saying, basically, "I'll be immortal but no one else will be!"
* Descan also giggles at people saying "Living forever is boring!"
1) Kind of a dick move to create a method of immortality without giving the option to use it to other people.(regardless of what it is, you guys saying "I'll just upload my neurons" like that won't kill your consciousness and like it won't be a form of immortality [i.e. someone thinkin' they're you living forever] are silly)
2A) Like you've done it.
2B) If you're bored in the universe we have, and the technologies we have and will have, and with the myriad people we have, will have, and will create, and possibly find, then you're doing it wrong. I'm not bored with life now. I don't see why I'll be bored with life tomorrow. And I don't see that stopping any time soon, especially since all evidence points to the alternative being the ultimate in boredom, i.e. *literally* being nothing and doing nothing.
These are all valid points, but...
1) I assume any immortality would be granted through magical means that you yourself have no control over, because I don't see any way in which anything bound by physical law can last forever, much less sustain a human being's life along with it through any event that may occur. Of course, it's not like I can think of a magical way either, but you know what I'm saying, right?
2A) I'm not certain I understand this point, but if you're saying "You have not lived forever, therefore you don't know whether you would be bored living forever", then the obvious response is that you also don't know whether you
wouldn't be bored living forever, and some people don't want to chance it.
2B) After a long enough time, you would end up being put in a situation in which there is simply nothing to do for a very, very long time, if not forever. This would most likely happen in the form of being flung into deep space. You could, of course, occupy yourself by just thinking, but that would, after a few centuries of simply drifting through starlit emptiness, probably drive you insane. Not to mention the possibility of being sucked into a black hole: if the mystical force preserving your mind and body did manage to keep you from being destroyed, I don't imagine that there would be much sensory perception going on.
There was some crazy chinese emperor dude who thought eating these poisonous beans would let him live forever.
Guess how well it worked out?
I'll have you know it worked very well actually! I'm, still as fit as a fiddle.
Well played. Of course, you did have a few thousand years to think that one up, but still, well played.