have you never thought of genetic suppression of sex drive?

has anyone on this forum ever thought beyond the redundant musings of a pothead?

interesting stories

I don't remember who said it, but it goes something like this: "Why is a question for philosophers not scientists"

its evolutionarily difficult to design. just think that its a huge jump when you consider that all other life so far lives with about one generation at a time to conserve resources. there are other reasons: it could become a stagnant gene pool, overpopulation would kill us off, we'd become prone to long term decay from unrepairable body parts/organs

the fact is that everything in the universe undergoes change and death is just one of them that we like to accentuate, probably in unconscious defense of our own selves

Are you calling me a pothead for talking about the known nature of the universe?

99% of this thread is based around a hypothetical, much like your own comment.

we die so the future of hst can be remembered in future genes

You know that requires sex right?

To quote Hayley Smith: "And when you're in your late 30s, you may have a chance at convincing a long-time female friend to have awkward pity-sex with you, once."

no not you specifically, but much of this forum posts as though they just got stoned and had to go share one of those brilliant never-before-conceived questions with jsp

and on point, when biological immortality becomes possible, it's almost certain that the ability to suppress sexual desire would be possible. which would be preferable to killing off other immortals who did not willingly agree to die

really depends what is meant by " immortality "
in a sense , all life today is immortal , in that it has been continuously here since its inception , billions of years ago
genes make copies of themselves , and even tho the original gene may perish , its copy may live on to copy itself again and again

dont forget that you dont have any of the cells that you were born with anymore
what you have are copies of those cells ......

when you're 30 , you wont have any of the cells that made up your body when you were 20
does that mean you died ? are you still alive ?
can you say that what happened to the 20 yr old you , happened to you , when you're 30 ?
because nothing of that 20yr old remains


from an evolutionary standpoint , we need a mechanism that allows adaption to changes in our environment
what was good for life 2 billion years ago , isnt good now

but there has been an uninterrupted chain of cells from then to now , ending with every cell in your body
a life that expands over many bodies , that changed and improved itself ,and that is still alive today

if that isnt real immortality , i dont know what is

This post was edited by Matao on Sep 1 2012 06:10am