{"id":99188,"date":"2019-11-30T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/what-if-technology-causes-some-people-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2019-11-30T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T19:03:43","slug":"what-if-technology-causes-some-people-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/what-if-technology-causes-some-people-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"What If Technology Causes Some People to Live Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-if-technology-causes-some-people-to-live-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a roundabout way of saying that the uploaded minds might be seen as superhuman, even though, as Minerva and Rorheim observe, \u201cit\u2019s not clear whether you would survive in any meaningful sense if you were copied several times over.\u201d If you didn\u2019t, something that used to be you might exist and be cognitively superior to the common run of humanity but the \u201cyou-ness\u201d is gone.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/what-are-the-ethical-consequences-of-immortality-technology\">warn,<\/a> \u201cWe can be pretty certain, for instance, that rejuvenation would widen the gap between the rich and poor, and would eventually force us to make decisive calls about resource use, whether to limit the rate of growth of the population, and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such considerations as limiting the \u201crate of growth\u201d of the population may relate to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/dr-francesca-minerva-after-birth-abortion-article-defended-after-death-threats-419638\">controversy in 2012<\/a> involving a paper written by Dr. Minerva and Dr. Alberto Giubilini:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a roundabout way of saying that the uploaded minds might be seen as superhuman, even though, as Minerva and Rorheim observe, \u201cit\u2019s not clear whether you would survive in any meaningful sense if you were copied several times over.\u201d If you didn\u2019t, something that used to be you might exist and be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}