{"id":8752,"date":"2014-02-05T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T06:01:47","slug":"the-path-to-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2014\/02\/05\/the-path-to-immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"The path to immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d\u00a0written earlier<\/a>\u00a0on how brands could use an individual’s data (the personal API) to fit themselves into his\/her narrative and had used Nike as an example. \u00a0But this data could also be used by fitness and health companies to discover ‘fault lines’, gradually delay wear and tear, and one day, totally prevent a machine shutdown.\u00a0This video –\u00a0A Day in the life of Tim Ferriss<\/a>\u00a0(watch for a minute from 3:25) – gave me an idea of how we might be moving faster in that direction because of \u00a0data collection.<\/p>\n

Back in 2011, in ‘God in the details<\/a>‘, I’d opined that over a period of time, when our data capture capabilities were evolved enough, and we had a lot of data on people on a lot of their behaviour, consumption etc, we would potentially be able to answer the most profound questions about our existence, purpose etc, and unlock further dimensions. I was extremely happy to read the same thought in this (long, but) amazing read called ‘Navigating Stuckness<\/a>‘. “I could sit safely at my desk and write computer programs to gather vast amounts of Internet data, which I thought could finally answer timeless questions like \u201cwhat is love?\u201d and \u201cwhat is faith?\u201d with precision and clarity.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

On one hand, data could help us in our path to immortality, and on the other, it could provide us the answers to fundamental existential questions. I wonder what would happen first, because,\u00a0as I wrote in\u00a0PhilosoRapture<\/a>, I also wonder if those questions would remain relevant once we became immortal.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the other track to immortality that is rapidly developing is that of the\u00a0augmented human<\/a>, where human parts (including the brain) will be replaced by mechanical replicas.\u00a0We’re only a part of evolution, as this\u00a0wonderful, humbling video<\/a>\u00a0would show, and it is probably only our ego that makes us believe (if we do) that we’re the endpoint. Maybe, there will be a species later, of whom we’d be probably be creators, for whom our questions will seem irrelevant and who will have their own sets of answers to seek.<\/p>\n

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(quote via<\/a>, image via<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

So it would seem that whichever way we approach immortality, by the time we get there, chances are, it may not be that significant.<\/p>\n

On one hand, humans working towards making god irrelevant. On the other hand, technology moving towards making humans irrelevant?<\/p>\n

\u2014 manu prasad (@manuscrypts) January 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The year we conquer morality, by the way, is 2040, as per Ray Kurzweil<\/a>. I’ll be 62 then, or maybe not, or maybe it won’t matter, or maybe… \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

until next time, live long and proper \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d\u00a0written earlier\u00a0on how brands could use an individual’s data (the personal API) to fit themselves into his\/her narrative and had used Nike as an example. \u00a0But this data could also be used by fitness and health companies to discover ‘fault lines’, gradually delay wear and tear, and one day, totally prevent a machine shutdown.\u00a0This video […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6055,1479,98,412,6268,6056],"tags":[2277,1443,1116,4172,4424,3651,445],"class_list":["post-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-human","category-thoughtstream","category-future","category-life","category-self","category-society-culture","tag-carl-sagan","tag-data","tag-immortality","tag-personal-api","tag-profound","tag-ray-kurzweil","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15104,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions\/15104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}