Pain and pleasure give life its value otherwise we would not be motivated to live at all. — Nils Loc
Life Quality, primarily. Life has a level of quality, if it's unacceptable, life has no value. Life begins to have value when it's quality is acceptable. — Varde
However, what they indicate is objective: bilateral symmetry, dipolarity, complementarity, etc.I conclude that left and right do not exist objectively. — Miller
Same as every other real X: conditions that differentiate X from ~X; lacking such conditions renders X indistinguishable from ~X (i.e. fictional).What makes God real? — _db
If "God is real", then it is so independent of whatever "people believe".The fact that people believe that God is real?
Some argue that if we lived forever that life would be greatly depreciated in value. But does its value largely come from its brevity, finitity, and frailty? Is the argument that life in the universe is only possible within like 0.0000001% of the history of the universe an argument for the value of life, or its insignificance, and likihood that it was more of a mistake? Surely its value is mostly in the experience of life and not the relative span of time? — TiredThinker
Immortality, in order to be fully livable, would have to consist in a memory limit of a mortal human lifespan – maybe a maximum of 100 years – new memories "rewriting" over +100 year old memories (regardless of their emotional weights) continuously. Such an immortal might want to offload her memories in journals, photos, videos, digital files, etc throughout centuries and millennia before she permanently loses the ability to recall them subjectively. Also, to keep track of lost friends and current rivals, stashes and secrets, etc. She will be a perennial stranger to the more-than-century-old aspect of her past self, living in a perpetual hundred year bubble of self-awareness. This might maintain an immortal's sanity and motivation to 'create new memories' – feeling alive "full of value and joy" – across endless millennia.So one could live forever (assuming they don't trip into a bus) and have a life full of value and joy? — TiredThinker
Hm. I've met quite a few folk who are very motivated to live and yet are in constant pain. — Banno
That way leads to madness for an 'immortal'.Lets just assume memories aren't lost. — TiredThinker
Surely its value is mostly in the experience of life and not the relative span of time? — TiredThinker
bilateral symmetry — 180 Proof
Gibberish — 180 Proof
I remember "Mister Kobyashi" and Verbal Kint. — 180 Proof
Some argue that if we lived forever that life would be greatly depreciated in value. — TiredThinker
We have evolved already though. I am forward thinking here. — TiredThinker
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