Immortality
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Similar figures obtained for belief in personal
immortality.
I think we would all understand the sentiment that Woody Allen expressed when he said, "I don't want to achieve
immortality
through my work.
I believe that it is nothing less than the assurance of
immortality
that makes self-sacrifice at these moments so relatively easy.
All right, so let's take four subjects that obviously go together: big data, tattoos,
immortality
and the Greeks.
Well, then, because of electronic tattoos, maybe all of you and all of us are very close to immortality, because these tattoos will live far longer than our bodies will.
Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and
immortality
mix for a long time.
The interesting thing, the original thing, would be to threaten somebody with
immortality.
That's the tradition of God, the soul and
immortality.
Now, this shows that reminding people of death biases them to believe, regardless of the evidence, and it works not just for religion, but for any kind of belief system that promises
immortality
in some form, whether it's becoming famous or having children or even nationalism, which promises you can live on as part of a greater whole.
And these
immortality
stories have thousands of different manifestations, but I believe that behind the apparent diversity there are actually just four basic forms that these
immortality
stories can take.
Now I'm going to briefly introduce these four basic forms of
immortality
story, and I want to try to give you some sense of the way in which they're retold by each culture or generation using the vocabulary of their day.
We want to avoid death, and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of
immortality
story, and it might at first sound implausible, but actually, almost every culture in human history has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth or something that promises to keep us going forever.
So we need a backup plan, and exactly this kind of plan B is what the second kind of
immortality
story offers, and that's resurrection.
They find the body too messy, too unreliable to guarantee eternal life, and so they set their hopes on the third, more spiritual
immortality
story, the idea that we can leave our body behind and live on as a soul.
And such skeptics can find comfort in the fourth kind of
immortality
story, and that is legacy, the idea that you can live on through the echo you leave in the world, like the great Greek warrior Achilles, who sacrificed his life fighting at Troy so that he might win immortal fame.
But again, there are skeptics who doubt whether legacy really is
immortality.
So those are the four basic kinds of
immortality
stories, and I've tried to give just some sense of how they're retold by each generation with just slight variations to fit the fashions of the day.
There's a need for
immortality
within the hearts and thoughts of their loved ones, myself, my crew, or anyone around.
Whether or not the man ever lived, loved, reigned, or adventured, it’s undeniable that the character has achieved
immortality.
But trauma survivors have lost that feeling of
immortality.
Shifting body size and content, super speed, flight, super strength, immortality, and invisibility.
In movies, kings are always searching for the secret to
immortality.
But is
immortality
really a good thing?
Another tricky thing about immortality: Human beings have not always looked the same.
And one more physical consideration for immortality: Scars.
After all,
immortality
doesn't automatically translate to invincibility, it just means you cannot die.
For now,
immortality
remains out of reach, for humans and computers alike.
I was distracted innovating immortality, even as many of you began to live shorter lives than your parents had.
It isn't about enormously extending human lifespan or
immortality.
They gained
immortality
in frescos, hieroglyphs, statues, and even tombs, mummified alongside their owners.
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