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5 Reasons Immortality Would be Worse than Death:

by TLTheLiberator
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Very interesting!


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  • Profile picture of the author FuNwiThChRiS
    good read, pretty interesting stuff to ponder...
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    They don't know what alzheimers is, and one person said that memories tend to get summarized, etc... which, frankly, seems reasonable to me. ALSO, apparently the brain supposedly has a lot of potential to grow, although obviously that can be problematic.

    And time doesn't really speed up, or seem that different.

    But the other points, including the one about freaks, are interesting. Of course some things get WORSE rather than better.

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    • Profile picture of the author BigDaddys101
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      And time doesn't really speed up, or seem that different.
      With a name like seasoned I would hope you have been around a bit longer than i have, I would like to know your secret I swear the older I get the faster the YEARS seem to go by

      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      ALSO, apparently the brain supposedly has a lot of potential to grow, although obviously that can be problematic.

      Do you know anyone with a big head that didn't end up being problematic?
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
        Fascinating article.

        I agree 100%.

        Thanks for sharing it.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by BigDaddys101 View Post

        With a name like seasoned I would hope you have been around a bit longer than i have, I would like to know your secret I swear the older I get the faster the YEARS seem to go by
        I'm close to 50.

        They SEEM to go by faster, but that video said something like a year seems like 6 seconds at 100. HECK, many old people actualy tend to walk SLOWER! I've seen people even well into their 90s that seemed plenty fine, etc...


        Do you know anyone with a big head that didn't end up being problematic?
        Well, I simply meant that since the skull won't get larger, that new growth could cause problems. HECK, a lot of the brain effectively like dies off at 2, etc... What if it didn't, and just kept growing? Of course, babies don't yet have a lot of hard tissue in the skull, so a larger brain isn't THAT much of a problem.

        Synaptic pruning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

        There are like 3 major times such pruning takes place on a massive scale.

        Neuroscience for Kids - Brain Plasticity

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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    Weird. I never really look at it like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author myeanne
    Like it. Thanks for sharing!! =)
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