You would be immortal and all basic amenities essential for physical survival would be provided. You can have the age of your body according to your choosing and your mind won’t blow off by accomodating endless amount of memory.
You can choose anything you desire and that too at any instant which may or may not exist in real life, like an endless supply of something or a companion with the same immortality powers as yours, but you won’t be able to change it in the future and there would be no going back. Also you cannot alter your mind in any way that would enable to let you tolerate living for eternity or not get bored of things.
Ideally you would want to have everything just to be sure but by asking you the minimum requirements, it would making it more interesting to know what you think you could do without or what matters to you the most.
I think The Good Place had an excellent take on this.
In the afterlife, people’s every desires were met, they could have orgasms lasting millennia, and they eventually just turned into mindless zombies because they’d essentially done and seen everything - multiple times.
To resolve this, they were given an option to walk through a “door” and cease existing any time they wanted. The idea of an “end” reignited the passions that had been lost and gave them something to look forward to.
That show had no business being as great as it was.
Yeah, I’d heard good things about it before I finally got around to watching it. I went into it expecting “good”, but got “great” instead. No complaints lol.
Kinda funny how a show about death considers paradise nothing especially different from normal life except having the ability to leave on your own terms when you’re ready to.
I think that facet is more about the scale of eternity and the human mind’s inability to grasp the enormity of it.
I don’t want to spoil the twist for those who haven’t seen it, but they do show that you’re able to have your heart’s desire at any time. Plus, it’s a TV show, so you have to make some concessions for budgetary reasons (everyone can’t be a giant CGI turtle, for example lol).
They literally say in the show that all the Good Place really is, is time. As much time as you want, to do whatever you want, with whomever you want.
There is nothing that could be done to make me want to live for eternity. Do you know what’s boring after a billion years? Everything. Do you know how many billions are in infinity? All of them.
Eternity means that one day you’ll outlive the last black hole and you’ll be the only thing in a universe with, effectively, nothing but your imagination to keep you busy.
What is there if not the journey. I still choose life.
Even after being partially disabled for a decade and in near total isolation presently, I still choose life now, as I would then. Boredom is a lack of creativity. Perhaps the entire universe becomes the slow moving simulation of my mind for the Postbaryon.
You eat the same repetitive foods in a cycle just beyond conscious awareness, and yet you do not tire of eating. I can dance to life forever, despite the rhythmic procession, or effrons quale.
Do you know how long it takes to do everything?
Eternity. I doubt even with all time forever you’d be able to do everything. Our world is ever-changing, much less the wider universe.
The one stipulation I’d put on living forever is the ability to change with the universe. Who’s to say physics will even allow us to perceive reality in a few billion years, if we’re stuck the way we are?
The one stipulation I’d put on living forever is the ability to change with the universe.
Sure, if you’re a god that changes things. Otherwise I’d live in fear of the eternity that is still left after there’s nothing left to experience. In a couple hundred billion years all the stars will be dead. In a trillion years all mater will have decayed into iron and be so spread out that you could never get from one lump of iron to the next even at superluminal speed. A trillion years is the blink of an eye compared to forever.
Also you cannot alter your mind in any way that would enable to let you tolerate living for eternity or not get bored of things.
No drugs at all? I’m out. They’re almost necessary for tolerating living for a finite period.
For me, it would essentially need to be a TARDIS.
Whenever I think of immortality I immediately go to the end of all other life and the idea of knowing that I would eventually be doomed to an inescapable existence of total isolation. Long before that, but hundreds of years from now, I am sure that I would go literally insane with boredom. I need to know that there will always be something new, different, and interesting. A TARDIS would allow me to go anywhere, anytime, with anyone.
I also fear eternal life in some preeminent imprisonment, either some form of external confinement, like being trapped at the bottom of the ocean by the crushing weight of the water around me, some form of locked-in syndrome. A TARDIS could operate on its own to save me from such a fate.
If eternity ever becomes too much, a TARDIS would also give some options to potentially end my existence.
That’s a great idea! I second it!
Honestly I’d need it to not be 100% permanent. If the earth gets obliterated I’m not interested in swirling in the void forever. If a government figures it out and keeps me locked to a table for decades, I want to be able to die.
If you give me the ability to concentrate and stop existing, I’m in.
I’d bargain down to a torpor state if death is right off the table. It might be interesting to be found floating in space by space faring sentients in the far future.
I would need a life without the human animal nature to be such a god. I would tire of the hormone cycle. I already find it stupifying to some extent after less than 4 decades. Free my mind of this burden and give me perfect recall to expand my human memory byte. From there I will explore the universe, within the galaxy and beyond.
Infinite supply of breathable air
Otherwise the post stellar era is gonna start sucking for you real bad real quick
We’re talking end of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 2 level “ooooooooof” in terms of how much suck you’re signing yourself up for, floating in an abyss lit by ghosts of long dead stars and galaxies, not having been able to take a breath in trillions of years and yet also not being able to die from suffocating because of it either.
There is a reason why only half of that level of shit to be in was referred to by the Supernatural fandom as “Turbo Hell”
I would ask for a means of travel in with this as well… fixing the lack of breathable air would be pointless if you’re stuck aimlessly drifting through space, Bender a la Godfellas style.
Wouldn’t that fall under the basic necessities part of OPs post?
I’m pretty sure I could handle it, as long as I have my MineTest server.
I’d probably want my partner to live forever too. We’re pretty perfectly matched.
On the one hand, one lifetime is not nearly long enough to do all the things I want to do.
On the other hand, I’ve been severely depressed before, and the biggest thing that got me through those times was knowing that I only need to get through one lifetime - which again, really isn’t that long.
Overall, I don’t think I would ever want to be immortal, but I would gladly take a long extension if some kind of djinn were to offer it.
