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nonameiguess
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Learning Without Burnout
Immortality would be a possible goal if heat death or big crunch wasn't the inevitable fate of everything.
faeyanpiraat
on March 16, 2021
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If you leave stuff as-is then you are probably right.
But what if technology can solve that issue aswell?
adrianN
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That would assume that physics as we understand it is fundamentally wrong. You might as well hope for an eternal afterlife in the garden of Eden.
faeyanpiraat
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How many times have our understanding of physics have been fundamentally wrong in the past?
What is the chance it will never happen again?
adrianN
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The chances that the laws of thermodynamics are fundamentally wrong is pretty low. Asimov has a nice essay on this topic:
https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.ht...
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