Would Immortality be Worth It? | Open College Podcast No. 51 | Stephen Hicks

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When we think about our own mortality, we might conclude we must fill our lives with as many experiences as we can-don't waste time, get a move on- or we might reach a more fatalistic position: what is the point of doing anything? Would we be better off if we were immortal?
For some time, Professor Hicks has been doing a philosophical analysis podcast on a wide range of contemporary topics. It has been available on a number of other platforms. It is now being offered on RU-vid as well. Its mission is to “ to explain the chaos.”
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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13 июн 2024

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@austinmackell9286 11 дней назад

I think a Buddhist perspective on the self is important here. If we don't have a Rock Hard Cogito, and accept that the character our self changes as the content changes (as things are learned and forgotten), then the person I would have become after mere thousands of years, let alone millions, would be so radically different from the person I am now, that the question of personal survival begins to dissolve. Similarly, the universe and the human role in it would be changing, so that would also produce novelty. You could go be a con-man in the andromeda Galaxy. Great content!

@iron5wolf 8 дней назад

Dr. Hicks, I quite enjoyed your talk. I advocate for a stronger distinction between “immortality,” which typically connotes an involuntary invulnerability to death, and “indefinite lifespan,” which more clearly connotes the scenarios you discuss here. We may in fact be in the first generation where lifespan increases faster than years lived, but that will not abolish other causes of death including murder, war, privation, accident, and the voluntary choice to end one’s life. I would definitely like to hear more in-depth discussion of the ethics around the increasingly likely possibility that at least some of us may get to live, if not millions, but possibly hundreds of years past humankind’s historic lifespan.