If superpowers were real: Immortality - Joy Lin
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What if immortality wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to be immortal? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us mere mortals.
Lesson by Joy Lin, animation by Cognitive Media.
Sure, Immortality has problems... but you'll have an eternity to solve them.
+Logan Crotty In only a few thousand years we went from hunting with wood clubs to the moon... Now you're talking Billions of years. Dude, by that we've reached other solar systems, suns and galaxies, if one sun is going to explode, you go to a new one.
Yeah, so? You talk about the sun exploding, but there are countless suns and countless galaxies, in a billion of years it won't matter if our sun explodes, i'll probably be lightyears away from it in another galaxy, in another planet, or a Dyson sphere.
+Logan Crotty You do know that this is purely hipothetical right? Nobody knows if the universe has an expiration date, nor if there are multiple universes. We don't know if there will be "an end"; so if i were to be immortal i would not worry about that... then maybe if everything is comming to an end i may have the knowledge to go back in time and start a loop. ;)
Grandpa please stop talking...You just got served.
Uh no, Logan is the one who is undisputably in the right here, if you were immortal you would become the last undissolved entity in the universe at some point, depending on the definition of immortality
Immortality + Self-healing = Win
Project Overturn until the planet explodes and you're trapped in space just forever
+Ryan Alwill
You'd find another planet.
Project Overturn It would take a LONG time...
+Tabirca Radu
You'd be in a coma at best (these two powers can only do so much) so you wouldn't have to worry about boredom that much.
I guess that is one way to put it. xd
Guys, the narrator is James Arnold Taylor. Obi-Wan Kenobi is narrating about immortality, and I think he knows very much about it.
I HEARD IT TOO!!!
This video is 7 years old go to bed
Oh wow. I liked the animation but not really the narration for this. Now I feel bad
Makes the video even better.
I was just thinking about how similar their voices were!
“Immortality isn’t living forever. That’s not what it feels like. Immortality is everyone else dying.”
-12th Doctor
a fictional character made by someone who isn't immmortal
So true. Technically, living forever and living for 100 years (like we can physically do today) would feel exactly the same to the person experiencing it, because the only difference between living forever and living X number of years is one day you don’t wake up again, but you have no awareness of not existing, so to you+your concept of the world, when you die, the world ‘ends’ (even though you know it keeps going after you stop).
Immortality is only ever a curse, unless shared across all people, and even then, what makes life worth living is knowing that one day you’ll have to stop. If you have the time to do everything why do anything? There’s no need to, because you’ll get there eventually.
What if everyone is immortal lol
immortality is when you're immortal
-the 69th doctor
Ok so you dont talk about what will happen when the sun explodes and u become a floating living being for literally eternity, the universe continues expanding, all the planets separates so thermal energy desapears and now u become a floating living being in space at -273°C for eternity and if u get lucky and u fall into a planet, it will just be a gigant ball of ice
Narrator: *mentions a million things bad about being immortal*
Narrator: Do you want to be immortal?
Me: Yes.
I don't really care
Sounds like Voldemort to me
Ramya Rose and that’s how he lost his nose
Narrator: mentions a million things bad about being immortal
Me: Do you want to be immortal?
Narrator: yes
😂😂😂😂
Being immortal will automatically make you not aging. Because to be immortal, your body will constantly regenerate old cell, means you wont get old.
If you are able to get old, then you will die, since your body slowly deteroriate.
Normal human regenerative ability in their prime will be enough to do that.
Wound will heal given time, even if it will leave scars.
Now, if you get into accident and lose limbs, that is unfortunate. You will live the rest of your life without them. Or you can spend your time researching how to grow lost limbs back. You are immortal, you have all the time you need.
@Broly The Sarcastic Savage I doubt that in 100-300 years we won't find a way to regenerate libs, there is a branch of medicine/biology called regenerative medicine that studies and apply tissue regeneration.
@Broly The Sarcastic Savage also I've seen videos of actual existing prosthetics that are very advanced almost like sci-fi now imagine in 20 more years or 60 or 200 or 2,000 the possibilities are endless
Step 1: Ask Google how to regrow limbs
Step 2: profit
@Broly The Sarcastic Savage this is what if superpower is real. I'm sure you would regrow organs. Because if said persom is immortal but lost their head and die, they're not immortal, now, are they?
@@thearmyofiron Pftt! Imagine dying.
-This post was made by the Elizabeth gang.
I feel if a single person was trapped to be immortal, they would become a pretty good writer in fear of forgetting their life.
Or vlogger lol
Now I can just imagine some fantasy story where the characters find a gigantic library all written by one single immortal.
Probably would make some brain backups in the future or something
@@eljuaco428 multiple mediums of safeguard multiple locations
@@rashoietolan3047 exactly
"What about scars? After all, Imortality doesn't mean invincibility"
Me: I see, is that how you see it, then let me pull something from Greek/Rome myth "Immortality doesn't mean enternal youth" you could live forever but you get older, and older, and suffer from the physical pain of being old, until you became as small as a grape, mumbeling in your insanity from your pain and suffering from being so old.
Yeah, I mean immortality is immortality. This is the most pure immortality. As it is immortality without any extra powers
@@GraveUypo live forever isn't imortaly perse too... since someone that has eternal youth can live forever and still be killed :V
You are forgetting robots and ai, loneliness is impossible there will always be some form of life or something the imitates life.
@@GraveUypo people like to add them and they ar generally accepted to come together, however they actually aren't part of it.
Imagine computers and connection to the internet ... Maybe that helps?
@@satanbrony9235 it doesn't take powers to reach immortality in the first place. We will be able to reach it in time just like other animals have. The purest form of immortality is eternal youth until you get an incurable disease or die of a car crash
What if Bigfoot is actually just an immortal early homonid???
What if? And since homonids didn't really develop much in language he will just keep roaring at us. And living his homonids life which looks like an animals life to us.
He's fake tho
Sir HorsesAround r/woooosh
Why Not Im sure they're not joking
@@alphabeticalborder6951 Uhm, I'm pretty sure asking a 'what if' question doesn't mean I actually believe that Bigfoot exists... and immortality for that matter. Lols.
So after 10000 girlfriends, Where does our immortal friend stand on STD's?
Discomfort but nothing fatal...
Dimitri Fletcher I would assume the same immune system that can grant effective immortality would make short work of any disease...
*****
Ya I think a lot of people mix up immortality with invincibility. Plus if some disease or accident rendered him infertile, then he would only be useful as a history book.
But we are talking a realistic immortality, right? Not some mystical mumbo jumbo immortality?
In a realistic immortality situation, your immune system repairs all damage (because otherwise you will get old and your body will fail or you could lose a limb and suffer massive blood loss, either way you die) and can defeat all disease (otherwise you will catch ebola and die...) or are we saying the immune system can defeat ebola but we'd still get a cold?
Mystical mumbo jumbo immortality means ??? Your body could survive without blood? You get your head cut off and you stay alive? Does the body stay alive too?
It kinda does say realistic in the description below the video...
Being immortal is either:
1) not being able to die, but aging
2) not aging and not being able to self-heal
3) self-healing, but you still can feel pain
4) not feeling any pain, self-healing and not aging
It doesn't say which type of immortality it will be. The last two are pretty good.
Self healing but not completely invincible is probably the best one to live with, keeps you young "forever" but you can always find a way to die if you want to after several hundred/ thousand years.
The wolverine effect I guess.
@@JottoHearthStone from what i know, wolverine powers aren't enough to stop him aging at all, they just amke it a lot slower. There was a comic book in which wolwerine got old and his healing factor git weeker, becaue it was ocupied while trying to heal more and more parts of him
@@eksprolek2924 they deffinately slowed it significantly, I'm pretty sure the reason he was dying was that the adamantine poisoning was too much for the weakened factor to deal with any longer, he probably would have lived over a thousand years without it since it took almost 100 to kill him I think
@@JottoHearthStone i mean, without adamantium he would live thousynds of years, but the factor was sloved down by adamantium no stop, also it qas harder to regenerate every cell, and it started to get weaker, so all this combined xaused it
I thing that being to fell pain is sometimes good. I want 3
It’s insane to think how years go faster as you get older. I’m 20, 21 in a few months and time is definitely picking up. I still distinctly remember how long years felt when I was 10 or even how long my four years of high school felt
Granted, consider what the last few months have been. Easy to lose track of time when it hardly has any meaning anymore.
I feel you. Weeks go by so fast and each day just blends together into a forgettable blur
i'm 35 and individual years are going by much slower than they were 10 years ago to me. but decades feel a little faster.
A: "I liked the sky better when I was young. We had only 12 constellations in the Zodiac then, and the Moon was bigger. It was nice and tidy. Now, every time I look up they're in different positions."
B: "I can relate. Yesterday I went to the movies, and the new one everyone was talking about was about vampires."
A: "Vampires? Again?"
B: "Yeah. I turned and went back home. This is... what? Whe 125th time they're back into fashion?"
A: "140th, I think."
B: "Time flies."
A: "It sure does."
And it's definitely gonna get worse bro. I'm 28 and last six years flew by like a F-16. Probably cuz I spent it all studying on med school but still
If you are immortal it's safe to assume that eventually perfect medicine tech will be invented. Making every argument moot.
Possibly, but how would one handle the possible chance of the destruction of earth, a few hundred thousand or million years down the line, It'd be super boring to just be alone in a quiet desolate wasteland....forever o_o
+Vulcan Peace
once ftl space travel is Invented one would just flew earth. I would assume wants one found out that earth was destroyed they would fell quite saddened.
really because of all the different things that could be fixed with medical advances and robot parts there is only one issue. your going to get stuck. one way or another you are going to get stuck. in a car crash in the middle of nowhere your going to get stuck. sink hole happens underneath your house your going to get stuck. asteroid the size of mars hits earth (i don't even know if asteroids can be that big but fuckin whatever.) the earth is blown up and now your stuck in space. that being said I'll roll them dice.
Gary Mott immortality is not the same as invincibility
Vouax true
So this guy totally rules out technological advancement, doctors and dentists.
Cuz if you lose a tooth, going to the dentist is too much of a mortal thing to do. Ammirite?
Yeah like even if people will become 11ft tall you just go to your local Surgeon and ask him to print a new body or something.
@@lotusgaming-clashroyalemor7414 I mean, seriously in history on mankind based on Darwin's evolutions. Humans height didn't really changed that much even after tens thousands of years. Like,20cm or something?
I would not get bored my Minecraft world will be better than ibxtoycats
@@lotusgaming-clashroyalemor7414 I doubt this planet's gravity and atmospheric pressure would let humans grow that tall ever. Maybe if they colonize another planet, lol
@@jekesan4221 It's 10 cm I think
Fun fact: If you live forever, there is a 100% chance of you eventually becoming trapped, whether it be in a house, a cave, or the heat death of the universe. If you have a infinite lifespan, then this will eventually occur.
... and you also have a 100% chance to become free again afterwards. Infinity is truly longer than one might think.
Alejandro De Palma 🙏
@@alejandrodepalma9589 Close your eyes, count to 1. That's how long forever is.
@@reiatszu infinity never ends though. If i say one and open my eyes then again the state i was in was not infinity.
Ah yes very fun indeed
if I was immortal I’d just write books every few hundred years detailing life and experiences in that century like an encyclopedia
0:52 “he might become lonely and sad”
I’m already lonely and sad...
(Myself has left the server)
nothing to lose
You are immortal. You have been living on this planet for 4.5 billion years. You just can't remember anything
I don't want more of this pain
Asmaa Ramadan Spain but without the S
Increased mental capacity through technological enhancements and replace the lost limbs and eyes with advanced prostheses. There, now I am immortal as well as a cyborg
That would be depressing
+Drellistenstomusic What about system maintenance?
+Drellistenstomusic you can grow your own bodyparts in laboratory and have them brand new.
cyborg problem: solved c:
+Davide Marras An unrepairable fatal accident will happen eventually, due to probablity/if you live long enough. Your parts could break, flesh or cybernetic, you could still be killed, some things/damage just isn't replaceable, factory defect, etc..
+Fell Man probablity is a doble edge argument, since the posiblity of never having an accident decreses every second you live but never reaches 0% ;)
"Eventually, he stopped thinking."
I like this jojo refernce
Lol
every time someone tries to make an argument against immortality it always boils down to emotional stuff.
Yeah, I mean he even forgot the worse logical part- if this is just Immortality without extra magical powers- then you will age.
Emotional stuff makes you empathic and human. If it didn’t, you’d turn into a villain.
And the argument's ignoring the fact that if our emotions would have been set differently if we were immortal.
@@jonghyunlee6569 Yeah, of course. Over time you would just get used to the deaths of others. Even if you were very compassionate at the start. Would just get used to it. Especially since it would become unrelatable.
The only reason for kindness in the world is
you trying to get something back from the people or leaving a mark on the world. If you are immortal the best way of living is being a cold hearted egoistic person witch sounds terrible for some people. But in my opinion the biggest benefit of being immortal would be that you don't need to care for others. If you anger someone you can at some point spit on his grave. Nothing matters if you are immortal.
He’s ignoring the fact that technology evolves
@Felipe Brandao wait for the next society to be rebuilt. I mean, he's immortal, he can wait.
@@chicken_stewer5432 That next society may not accrue the same knowledge though; like he said, the Romans knew how to make waterproof concrete and we're completely in the dark regarding that.
@@edwardnygma8533 Yeah, but for example nowadays there's more technology than what the Romans had, even if the technology is lost, either new ones will be made or be recovered.
@Angry Abortion I see you read wh40k
He's ignoring a lot
If I were immortal this shit would still be a waste of my time.
Haaaaa, awesome comment
zlozlozlo I logged in, just to like your comment.
zlozlozlo Give this person a damn prize.
Claudio Ortiz I created an account just to like this comment.
Lol, you mean, nothing would be a waste of time. You got all the time in the world!
The fact that this was made 7 years ago and came onto my suggestions makes me feel like I should watch all of these
Don't worry you'll see more in your recommendation feed.
I was 7 when this vid came out
If I could be immortal, but with the option to end my life any time, that would be great, so if I ever get bored of being alive 10000000 years from now I could just end it instead of having to suffer forever, for all eternity, even after the whole universe has died and nothing's left
I'd think you would develop ther mental problems like never wanting to end it because thers more and I only
get one chance and am ending it now thoughts, this would lead to massive amounts of anxiety
@@dan7eiscool or become an arrogant immortal that is too narcissistic to die. Causing other people to sought after killing you.
Wait isnt better Time Jump u can ignore time and go when u want example
When it start a war you can go 20 years in future and see end of war etc...
I think a cult is more likely to emerge when an individual who has immortality is exposed to the general public.
And you will be subjugated to be an experimental object for studying immortality
Gintama fans have entered the chat
@@-ArdhaniChandra or nobody will belive you and you will become a clown
@@waynicliz Wow. The origin of Pennywise
@@waynicliz I'd be coming to their death beds in a full clown outfit
Honking my nose till they die
2:56 "So, look at your body, and count how many scars you have."
*Looks at fork stab scar because bitches be crazy.*
Bakkula domics
Bakkula I have scars from a forrk when somebody dared me to fit a whole metal fork in my mouth and I don't step the fuck down from challenges
+Eat Me Out You'd not survive immortality
Jesus fuck I have so many different scars
JonatasAdoM Hell yes I would. In the future we're going to be able to repair every organ, especially skin.
"Would you rather have some missing limbs, scars and have 10000 girlfriends or be dead"
Uh yea i pick option number 1
@samwilkinson But you have to watch each one of them grow old and die. And what about the children? If you make enough children in a certain population, there's a possibility that you next girlfriend will be your descendant!
@@phantomstate5287 so be it.
That is more than a little bit creepy
@@phantomstate5287 isnt there a reshearch that claims that if ya go back like a 2000 generations we all are distant relatives, if so then your own greatgreatgreatgreat.... x1000 would also be like super distant relatives,, also if ya live in a small country with like a million ppl who dont get too much immogration then ya dont need that many generations to find .... yea
@@phantomstate5287 Just dump them before they die. Easy fix.
I think a problem with the latter point is that you're immortal, you can just transplant whatever you want. You don't have to worry about rejection or immune system responses because you can't die. You can literally just have whoever's limbs you want because you don't have to worry about any of that.
At worst you'd lose an eye or something but then just wait a few decades or a few hundred years until eye transplants or cybernetics are possible.
There already is guy that has grude artificial camera eye. I understood immortality as you will not age, not that you can't die, at least generally talking about immortality. If you think it like that, you will have to take a risk with a transplant
Or just use your immortal stem cells to grow replacement body parts
There are mechanical arms and bionic lenses are still in test, they would be fully capable to cure blindess or unclear vision within 10-100 years lol, all I need is an immortal potion now :)
@@aflower6955 Granted; you now have a potion that will never wear down, the mighty potion of hydration!
@@tominieminen66 so you mean eternal youth? beacuse immortality is something that as no end, and if you can die, you have an end meaning you are no immortal...
Theres 2 types of immortality...
Non - aging and Deadpool
So you can be infinitely old while still having a flirtatious relationship with Death herself?
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 *_y e s_*
Theres a third, reincarnation with memories
Wolerine has the same powers as deadpool, but his powers were taken away from him
@@superpandaplaysmc Or respawning like in Minecraft.
Have you ever heard the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise?
Would help if you explained it
lpl94 i want to upvote you. But you have 66 likes soo, sorry
He was immortal but his physical presence was killed by his student who became the emperor
It's a sith legend ☺
It’s not something the Jedi would tell us, I assume
if you’re alive for an infinite amount of time you are guaranteed to do absolutely everything infinity amount of times, that includes covering every single inch of outer space, going insane, being happy etc. another concept which is pretty cool is that if you’re alive forever, you’re more likely to end up being insane more than you’re sane meaning on an insane/sane ratio the insane would be higher, however multiply that ratio by infinity and you’ll find they’re both infinitely large, equal numbers, however that should not be possible as you’d be insane more than sane
2:26 Finally know where Candace is truly from in Phineas and Ferb
A meaningful relationship doesn’t have to be meaningful forever to be meaningful as long as it is meaningful for you in the moment it’s going to be worth it
This guy is oblivious to the fact that most relationships don't last that long anyhow. You could have a hundred meaningful relationships by the end of a thousand years.
i totaly agree a relationship only exists since its lasting
when it ends its just a memory wether u find it meaninfull or not then doesent matter
wat
Wat
You forgot something: if you live 1 million years technology can save you from scars etc..
Until the earth explodes from a collision with sun, and since you still feel pain then oh boy have you ot something bad coming for you
We would have live in the mars,ect by then or space station
Exactly, Technology is something they never considered.
Kyle Muncal when will sun explodes?
@@surgen5101 Maybe tomorrow,then will be happy today
The queen of England be like: I already posses this power
Aged badly.
The book series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" has some pretty good take on the advantages and disadvantages of immortality
I love that book series, I most relate to the concept of The Elders, also the concept of Danu Talis.
Why do they always ignore the progression of technology when talking about Immortality? Just replace those missing parts with mechanical ones and it solves both problems.
If there are still mechanical arms left after humanity bombs itself to near-oblivion, and assuming mechanical arms aren't deemed heretical by the dominant religion at that time.
@@migukmoonpark4312 Wait for humanity to get mechanical arms again. Your immortal. (You can do that)
@@migukmoonpark4312 the future is now old man
You could also learn how to do everything you need to do to create mechanical appendages.
I am more on the growing limbs from stem cells direction.
Realistic immortality would require healing at a level way beyond what we currently experience and therefore it would be unlikely we would have the permanent disfigurements described at the end.
To achieve efrective immortality, I would picture a genetic modification that increases stem cell production to regrow missing parts, renews telomere length to protect dna and increases the amount of genetic proofreading enzymes in the cell so far fewer mistakes are made when cells divide.
true might have a baby hand for a year or so, but im sure there are a ton of work arounds.
Matt Hunter
agreed more like what wolverine from the X-Men has
Aww man... now I really want a CRISPR kit so I can try this
Genetic immortality is already a possibility. I've heard there's researchers working on it that could have it available in the next 15-30 years.
Ahm... Guys? There is a supposedly immortal being in the sea... When it gets too old, it's cells revert to something like stem cells, and it gets babyish and start all over again... And, there is a way to fix DNA, you'll find out soon. :3.
That's not immortality, that's agelessness.
Immortality = agelessness + invulnerability.
"are you sure you still want to live forever"
*yes.*
They forgot to mention that you would age. Especially if they are talking about immortality without extra powers. So eventually you will be left alone with your thoughts because of the inability to hear and see after becoming too old to do that. Not to mention that you won't be able to move much beyond the potential of technology to fix.
Becoming younger
Whoever is Narrator.. He seems to be really interesting person 💜💜💜
You must have meant 'irritating'.
@@zeroireland umm...... No
@@anjalikashyap8739 Are you sure?
@@zeroireland i think we're sure about our opinion :D
@@zeroireland the narrator's amazing
High chance of being trapped somewhere without a way out. And you live forever.
Alex Chan
with no mouth, and you must scream.
Alex Chan There is no prison that can hold back time. And since you have all of it. You cannot be held. For every prison will wither, and every cave will shift.
But how long before our mind breaks?
you could still starve to death or die from suffocation. immorality generally means immune to physical trauma, aging and disease
Alex Chan well, if you would live forever then eventually someone or something would happen that would let you escape
Cons listed in video
1. Ratio
2. emotions over time (outlive)
3. Forgetting memories
4. Realationships (meaningful?)
5. Everchanging environment (self consistent) (Appearance)
6.Scars, what condition you live as (small details)
7.Probabilities over time
These are all relevant downsides, but honestly, if they really end up being too much at some point, all immortality means is that you get to choose when you want to die.
Immortality + Invincibility + Self-evolution = win!
:D
Oh and SUPER INTELLIGENCE
It'll be a bit lonely after the big crunch tho. - But I'd still choose immortality over mortality. Better to exist, than not.
@@blockmaster7777 is this a jojo reference?
@@brokenfrog8462 eventually starman car stopped thinking
I guess if you were immortal you would finally be able to prove if evolution is actually correct or not after a million years.
coolnobodycares But still you would have no proof, and people would hate you for it
+Ogga Bob
How do you know that you would have no proof? The collective human race hasn't really even lived a million years no less one person, and for the majority of the time we did exist the terminology of time wasn't something anyone could accurately figure.
If one person lived for a million years, who knows what they might or might not find.
djthcHDbxxhdbd!dbdhcchhfhffjfjfjfhffjffrjjf& I don't know but
evolution is actually correct and you dont even have to live for a million years to see it.
You can see it in progress on bacteria for example. They live miuch faster; a generation can be as short as 20 minutes.
In labs all around the world there are dozens of forced or hastened evolution experiments going on and both the proccess and the results are quite clear to be observed.
You'd become the biggest observer.
the simple solution: death based immortality
it goes like this: Every time you die (or would die), you simply wake up in your bed, perfectly fine, no scars, no damage, nothing. Kinda like kenny from south park
Hells yeah like a Phoenix
The situation in which Phil Connors (Bill Murray) found himself every morning at 6:00 AM in Groundhog Day (1993), except for the calendar advancing.
So Szayel and Orochimaru's immortality.
@@EggLike_Spectacle so Doomsday
So, like Diavolo?
To be fair, i would like to hear about immortality superpower from the case study of the immortal jellyfish that reverse/ renew their cells indefinitely.
I don't see whats so bad about forgetting your past if you live for 1 million years and all your girlfriends have died I think forgetting is pretty good.
i think not being able to remember your friends and family, your experiences with them and the places you experienced them in with the happy memories that made them lovable sucks
Iranoutofnames you know all the weird people who make audio diaries? And while it may be a bit old school - books.
but will people read it? will you read it? would you remember all the books you made and what's in it?
why bother to remember
memories and emotion are insignificant to discovery and
wonders
Your brain can remember thing clearly in 70-80 years so
Every 70 just make a new book of your memory so you will remember it
“Look at your body and see how many scars you have.”
*Looks myself up and down, and realizes I only have one scar on my right index finger, which I got from a papercut.*
IM COOL I SWEAR!
8 scars for me
@@gearshift7174 nice try, I have a long, thin scar spanning the entire length of my right side of my torso when I got cut on a vent when I was 3
@@aidenconway9087 pfft i got my liver removed from a kidnapper
Thalassaer pfft my dog ate my liver because I ate his dog treats
Both of you... WHAT THE FU-
The narrator has a childish spirit still living inside him 😊❤️
Usually immortality translates to invulnerability in some way. So I doubt scars and whatnot would be a problem. Usually sickness is irrelevant too.
ok, I still want immortality, but I have to spell correctly my wish. I want immortality, invincibility AND infinite memory.
+Jack Archer what about eternal youth tho
+Jack Archer Now you'll just have to deal with the unexplored mental problems forever. Enjoy yourself.
+Yprion Alright, if I ever meet a genie, I'll remember to ask for immortality, superhuman regeneration to account for injuries, immunity to chronic diseases, eternal youth, infinite memory, unchanging perception of time, and also the ability to end my immortality at will. That should do it.
How about complete control of reality manipulation
+marc go isn't that Cheating ;D
To be honest, none of these things sound that bad. Surely in less than a million years someone will invent a way to regrow limbs and other body parts
Jon Blade yeah but if you are immortal maybe your cells lose the ability to replicate or die
Just think about how in 4.5 billion years I'll be drifting in space cus the sun exploded and how everything means nothing cus it's not like I won't get the chance to do it again
Thevindu Dasanayaka by 4.4 billion years interstellar travel would have already existed
westlyroots
If we live that long.
@@postconsolepeasant6538 I mean all damage too you could be permenant
2:50 Unaging immortality has to mean full quality regeneration, unlimited times. Otherwise, tiny amounts of non-lethal damage will accumulate and kill you eventually.
This is the funniest, scariest, straightforward-est, most entertaining, *EDUCATIONAL* video I have ever watched in my life.
i still want immortality.
ditto
Same...
Get a job like always
unfortunately, you will never get it. you will just not in this life on earth.
Well, we can assume that since this mythological idea of being immortal is suddenly real that our body would now be properly adapted to fit it. Since we already know that we would look the same age, meaning essentially that our cells replicate at a perfect level, we can assume that our now enhanced cellular regeneration accounts for clearing scars and blemishes and possibly regrowing limbs, teeth, hair, and other such things. This can also be made to allow our brains to be able to hold limitless information (as it already does in theory), accounting for the memory.
Basically my point is that if this person is to have this supernatural power of immortality, do you think the trait would be properly integrated into the persons DNA (as it logically would), thus allowing for most of these concerns to be trivial, or would it be randomly integrated and improperly executed like a duck suddenly given a human foot.
The Tooth in the Back Cool bro, but you forgot to add a question mark on the last sentence.
It also depends on the TYPE of immortality, as various cultures have differing ideas on immortality, for example as far as I’m aware we In the west tend to think of immortality as inherently having invincibility.
How is our brain in theory able to hold limitless information?
The Tooth in the Back
127th like. NCT 127: yEaH, SUPERHUMAAAAN.
The Tooth in the Back I agree with you immortality should mean invincibility right? that’s like turning a human into car and when you drive it the car starts to break down after a mile because the car ran out of stamina
as a kid I always imagine that if a found a magic lamp and genie ask me what wish I wanted I always said that I wanted immortality and eternal youth for me and all my family. And yes video I still would love to live forever that's a cool superpower.
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I think the assumption is that when people say they want to live forever, they want to maintain their current or peak physical condition. No one wants to turn into an immortal, limbless potato person 😂
I would totally do it I don't care even if I had to live in a void for eternity.
How about just ask to be eternally in the state you are currently in physically, basically immortality and invincibility.
Immortality on the basis of no more aging, no more injury, but still with the ability to alter your state of fitness.
@@sanstheskeleton679 Not a good idea, since the heath Death of the Universe will eventually occur, meaning you will spend Eternity floating in a Void.
@@sefieezephiel9851
We might as well not wish for any form of immortality if that is the case
Obviously I'd spend eternity finding a way to get off earth. What immortal would spend their life on one planet when there's a potentially infinite universe to explore? I don't care what I'd look like dude I'd be seeing new wonders all the time. I could use the "year feels like a day thing" to my advantage. Light year trips would fly by. I could find ways to better my memory I have eternity. Why do people always think so small when it comes to the potential inherent in immortality?
Pierce Aquilonen I SWEAR... Idiots saying immortality is and would be bad.
Im a physicist, im not afraid of death, im afraid o time, im afraid of losing our future discoverys, our future adventures, and i want to see the impossible become possible
I want to venture through the stars and be happy not because i lived for 1 million years, but because i lived to see that
You could like literally go into outer space and let yourself go and endlessly wander until you find signs of life
Pierce Aquilonen you can actually only explore a pocket of the u inverse and that’s the one we live in because there is dark antimatter pushing the clusters apart so you could only explore this one and the universe will eventually die intierly so it would just be you in nothingness
@@vanhalenlover5746 immortal. You will outlive the universe and time itself
If I'm immortal I'll get to see all the marvel movies then binge watch all of them starting from Iron Man whenever i get bored.
Believe me, you don’t want to remember every moment of your life. It can make PTSD even worse.
If I was immortal I would try to gain as much information as I can, learn EVERYTHING try EVERYTHING so I can impart my knowledge to future generations
*フランシスコ*
So would I.
People would slowly become psychos and crazy
Sadly if i was immortal i would eventually fall to insanity, so death is better than me facing mental torture and eventually develop a psychotic behavior, and since i'm immortal would mean humanity will die because of me, wow this got dark fast.
I would too
and learning is one of the main reasons I want to stay alive anyway
if was immortal i will find a way to spread the immortality and change my genetics......
that means i will leader FOREVER!
I need this guy to narrate everything I ever learn, period.
I know of a song about being immortal and living after everyone is gone. Basically just walking in and empty world of nothing. I think it was by shadow of intent or something.
Can you do the powers of Thor, that should be interesting
1. atmokenisis
2.electrokinesis
3. near invulnerability
4. resistance to all earthly diseases and ailments
5. near-immortality
6. etc
Being immortal means that the chances of you becoming permanently immobilized at some point jumps to 100%
But your chance of eventually being freed also reach 100%
fugy fruit
And your chances of becoming immobilized again also jump to 100%.
And there's another 100% after that
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The only thing that's not 100% is your chance of dying.
Well, not 100%, but infinitesimally smaller than 100%.
So you are basically assuming that science and medicine doesnt move forward along with the immortal being
What about when the earth is gone?
What about when humans no longer "exist"
Cons of being immortal: Pain and being a social outcast
Pros of being immortal: waiting out literally everyone and everything.
But why wait when you can enjoy the present?
another pro: segg
How on earth is it that you would be a social outcast? That just depends on your outlook and social standards.
@lasyagna i like italian food that's a really poor excuse but whatever.
@lasyagna i like italian food would you?
When we talk about immortal, we are talking about how you can recover from injuries or death and live forever.
That is not Immortality. That is regeneration. Different things.
Whats described in this video isn't immortality. Its eternal youth or at the very least a faux-immortality. True immortality includes regeneration. What if you brain gets destroyed, head cut off, you get locked in an area without air, food, or water? What if you get your entire body destroyed? Without the ability to regenerate, its not immortality.
kennyevilmonkey Exactly, true immortality means incredible regenerative capabilities, or just invincibility all together
I think being able to regenerate is just invincibility but being invincible doesn't necessarily mean you will live forever
I agree. If immortality is living forever, no part of your body should be able to be destroyed. None of your cells (which are all "you") should be able to be "killed" since you are immortal. Thus making you invincible. Also if you are invincible how do you die? Dying would be you weren't invincible.
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Yes, being able to constantly reproduce enough cells to replace the lost ones is obviously tiring which would mean eventually the cells would give out and either stop functioning or function ineffectively. At least if my grasp on Biology is correct. Correct me if I’m wrong please.
Tristan Yep I totally understand what you're saying. However, looking at it from a more 'fictional' lense haha invincibility would literally mean you were protected from any damage inflicted on your person and/or illness. Picture comic heroes for example. And then, despite being able to have this protection, it doesn't mean a thing person is ageless
How does one not get bored when immortal you ask?
Drugs. Drugs are the answer.
András Fogarasi So true man...
András Fogarasi You'll get tired of the high eventually
moo3oo3oo3 DaKow that's why you stick to one drug until you get bored of it then go to a stronger one
DNF phobia until you've done all drugs a million times over for a million years
namelessrando and you done that a trillion times over. You've literally tried every single possible chemical combination that has any effect on you. And done that a billion times over. What then.
If I'm gonna be immortal I would wish I don't feel any pain, doesn't get old, and self healing
you are basically wishing for immortality and invincibility
@@Ripurlife he can get kill
It's like either dying today or dying tomorrow. I'd always choose tomorrow cause ultimately life is all that we have
Precisely. Or asking those that say they don't want to live forever "Then when exactly you want to die?". I would be immensely curious about their answer, but I am pretty sure they say that because they never thought in-depth about what it means to be dead.
these are always the arguments I hear against immortality. But obviously when someone says they wish for immortality, or any super power for that matter, they mean they wish for that superpower, and for a body that can withstand the power. immortals would heal (at least more than normal), and have endless memory, and an extreme emotional fortitude.
What we call mortality does not have to accure. There is a way to immortality, or at least perfect health and happy life. And its free. :D
Having emotional fortitude of that magnitude would be absolutely miserable.
+FuzzyPickles42 being able to fully cope with and emotionally comprehend absolutely anything that happens to you? that actually sounds pretty awesome, it's not like you don't care, or that you don't greive, you would just find it weird that people grieve over death for more than a week, you would actually feel for each person you met and love and then be able to let them go afterwards without damaging your psyche, and never make stupid decisions based on emotional overcharge.
Austin Drapen Fuzzy don't know what he is talking about. :)
that would be a really cool and unique power!
How would anyone get bored if technology is constantly improving.
Then you would get bored by technology constantly improving.
haha
knife to meet you the next generation will be born numb mindless zombies staring at their phones and eating Tide Pods
knife to meet you just monika
I really like this concept of immortality. The first time I learnt of immortality like this was from UQ Holder(the manga). And it was really great to see this concept in the indian cinema in the movie "Tumbadd" ( forgive me if i slept it incorrectly). Its really different from the concept we thought immortality would be and really true.
Best ted video I've ever watched, and that means quite a lot
First you'd have to define immortality.
Does it mean you cannot die from old age? Then you can still die from disease or injury, which is pretty lame.
Does it mean your consciousness cannot physically end? If so, what happens if, say, your body is consumed in a fire?
The only kind of immortality which does not pose any of these problems is invulnerability, that is, every time you suffer damage, your cells regenerate fast enough to undo such damage.
But then what would happen if your head were to be lopped off? your brain still needs oxygen to work. Under these premises, I would assume the head would go into a sort of permanent coma, where regeneration keeps the neurons from dying, but from lack of oxygen the neurons themselves are unable to function and provide consciousness.
Immortality as in nothing can kill you. You can still get hurt and still age but you will never die.
Hyperion But for you to never die, you would need regeneration of some kind. If my arm gets lopped off and I don't stop the bleeding, I'll bleed out, but for someone can not die whatsoever, he would need to regenerate more blood to stay alive, or he would constantly be in a state of wooziness as by the time the wound naturally closed he would have lost way to much blood, and if it is so bad that it never closes, then he would bleed until he had no blood left until he was left in a state where his cells refuse to die, but he can't function because he doesn't have the blood required to. So it's just as Gstrangeman96 said, you would be in a sort of permanent coma.
Or are you interpreting it as your cells themselves will continue to function no matter what? I think that's the best way for it to work other than some crazy regenerative power. Even if an arm got cut off, it would never die, and could be reattached. Although with that you could still be killed in a way, because if your head is blasted off, and your brain cells are obliterated, you would die, but your body wouldn't, so the only way to be truly immortal would be to have regenerative powers.
Deadpool
You will age get hurt but... never die
Gstrangeman96 In which case, one could attach the severed head to another body where the neurons may reattach.
I still want immortality. Death is just too much of a bone chilling inevitability.
There argument it that you wouldn't want to live forever because you'd become scarred and a freak, but at least you're _alive_.
+Derek360 their*
+Derek360 also advancements in technology could allow you to become an awesome cyborg guy
But in the words of peter pan :'To die would be an awfully big adventure'
Likewise, Dumbledore comments that "to the well organised mind, death is but the next great adventure."
I like these narration so much..
the narrative is amazing
10,000 girlfriends sounds good to me.
nice video
That's a lot of girls! Though, if we humans stopped mating and everyone was immortal, I see how that's possible for there to still be room to live on the world.
***** I am pretty sure in a hundred years we will start terraforming and colonizing other planets, I think there will always be enough room for everyone even if we don't die and still reproduce.
well what if after million years you live, then the all girls left is your own offspring lol
are you sure you don't just want 300?
Me: Gets Immortality.
Also me: Gets broke because of birthday candles.
I cant wait for the universe to seize to exist so i can be all alone for the rest of eternity with constant suffering from not being able to breathe, being in full vacuum and at 0 kelvin frozen in my own suffering
Timeframe shifting will solve the problem.
No, it doesn't pose any problem with general relativity or thermodynamics.
It will extend your time immensely.
Yes, heat death of the universe will come.... But for you it will be like quintillions (I mean it) of years from now.
See this is predicated on the idea that immortality works one way all the time, but I think we can agree that if we were to have immortality we'd want a version of immortality where we can regenerate and keep our memories. Like I'm imagining Highlander but without the head slicing weakness. Furthermore, evolution is not only an extremely slow process but one that's predicated on traits that are already present in our DNA. In other words, as long as our society continues to function the same so that humans don't develop a biological imperative to change and there aren't any massive mutations we probably won't be experiencing any major physiological changes as a species. There are only a few risks I can think of that apply to most versions of immortality. The first is that you could outlive your entire species and be forced to wait for a new intelligent species to develop or arrive on Earth. The second is that you could be trapped (buried alive, put in a box, a ruined planet, etc). Other than that I can't think of any downsides.
people love to generalize
that human will be sad to live longer than their loved one
there some people who arent such as me
immortality for me is a perfect tool to achieve all my goals
you have ALL the time in the world to learn everything
But what about when you finish everything?
@@united-statesdhhs6278 learn new things... when the universe exist there will allways be new questions
joão vitor but you’ll get bored eventually I mean I’m learning middle school stuff and it’s boring
@@united-statesdhhs6278 because you are being forced to learn thats why its boring
Same
There has to be some drug that can cause total amnesia and cause you to completely forget who you are. Take that every 100 years, profit.
Logan, is that you? Professor X needs you!
The messed up part of it is when your 1st wife gets reincarnated and still remembers you while you're married to your 10th wife.
Wait aren't you supposed to lose your memory if you get reincarnated?
Impossible! By then The Galactic Empire would have wiped out Earth-295.
Kill them give them my immortal blood done I have immortal wife and kids and friends
The voice of the teller is so cool and adding much curiosity to the video.
This is video is desperately trying to make immortality look bad. In fact, that's all I've seen in the media, they're always trying to make something immortality look bad even though it's what almost everyone wants. Why?
+Mnakekeli Ngcamphalala It's to discourage people from trying to stay alive, because it would start to be a huge drain on resources.
+Mnakekeli Ngcamphalala Because it's a terribly impractical idea for many reasons even beyond what were explained in this video. You'll be short, ugly, ragged, and unappealing to everyone around you. You'll be lonely and depressed, and probably locked away in some science lab, having horrible experiments done to you. Eventually, when the Sun starts to lose a noticeable amount of it's mass, it will expand to a point that it kills everyone else on Earth (besides you) so you'll be even more alone, and also in immeasurable pain constantly, and you'll be starving and suffocating day after day, while being burned alive. Still want to be immortal? You better hope that humanity figures out how to do interstellar travel, and that they want to take you along (remember, you'll be utterly repulsive to everyone else).
SuperN0va If technology has advanced enough to make people immortal, it is advanced enough to solve all those problems.
Why do you hate immortality?
+Mnakekeli Ngcamphalala I never mentioned that I hate immortality, and I don't believe the video ever said that a technology existed to make people immortal. It simply proposed a scenario in which one is immortal. The video doesn't make immortality look bad, it's inherently a bad idea on its own. For each point I stated in my original reply to your post, please offer valid counter-arguments in favor of immortality being advantageous. This could make for an interesting and enlightening debate.
SuperN0va The inherent flaw you a this video miss is the fact that there's many ways to be immortal. Immortality is bad if it's not the type of immortality you wan't. For example I wouldn't want the type of immortality where I don't die because of hyper regeneration but I still age because my telomeres still degrade.
Here, one is immortal because they just stay at the same age. From what I can tell from the side effect of "immortality", in this video one is immortal because their telomeres don't degrade and aging is turned off, and that's it, he doesn't have high speed regeneration or anything else. That's not my ideal form of immortality, and it is definitely not true immortality.
True immortality is when it is impossible to die, not when it is highly unlikely to die. For example if I cut off the head of the guy in this video, he will die. But wait, how can he die, he's immortal? That's because that's not true immortality. It's the same with other forms of so called immortality found on earth, if I burn that so called immortal organism by throwing it into the sun, it will die.
You can't be human and have true immortality meaning that all these points on how immortality is bad are invalid but are valid when it comes to the type of immortality mentioned in this video. There are probably other ways to be immortal and avoid most of the problems presented that we don't know about.
Yes I still want to live forever because HL3
It's going to happen guys.
I know it ;-;
Linky lol
Linky can sombody explain, I didnt play the game
WE NEED HL3, 4, 5, 6, 7 AND MORE! \>:D/
Linky I
Someday
Honestly, if you're inmortal, in the future you'll have a better chance of recuperating all your limbs and replacing them with other synthetic or cybernetic options.
Besides, immortality implies a bit of self healing.
For example, if you end up in the bad end of a nuclear bomb and literally in the blast radious, your body normally would disintegrate.
However, if you're "inmortal" you simply couldn't.
So that means it gives you invulnerability from death via disintegration.
the narrator is really best. his talking will absolutely attract everyone's attention.
Not to mention when the universe dies out you will be alone for a very long.
I would be a god
Then eventually another big bang will appear, repeating the cycle of the universe. Its just you will have to wait billions to trillions of years for any lifeforms to form tho
@@jedanichi7194 Heat death of the universe = Big Bang. What an interesting hypothesis.
@@therealjezzyc6209 If that turned out to be true and you also happened to be immortal and survive the universe resetting would the earth reform? Events unfolding similarly? Would you eventually meet a version of yourself in that world?
@@ericwest4020 or perhaps you would end up at the center of a star or planet.
Me when i Live for one million years:
"Eventually kars stop thinking"
This is the same as sleeping without dreamming.
Boa
Basically when the Earth blew up somehow in the future after a collision with another planet.
The lack of people not getting your reference scares me
@@223antemerediem2 umm, you do realise that what you said was a double negative sentence?
Also, you're not the only JoBro around here.
1:42 I see this as an absolute win
I have one question though? What determines what age you stay at if your immortal (youth and looks)? Like is there a catalog where you choose to look like a teenager permanently or is it at random where aging stops ? This is of course the case only if immortality isn’t acquired but born with if it’s acquired you would of course stop at the time you began to possess it .