/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12651880
AMATEUR

>>12585908
Because of curiosity, because there is more than pleasure in life but seeking, searching and growth in possibilities. Even if 90% of humanity choose to waste away in pleasure, asexuals exist and you have a limited view on pleasure.

>>12294073
Amateur

>>12026184
Which kind? Biological one? Sure. www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(16)31664-6?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867416316646%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

And mind uploading might also become a reality in a century or so. Digital minds could alone live until the era of either proton decay or feed themselves in hawking radiation up until the year 10^100, when the last black hole has evaporated. Only vaccum energy, reversible computing or somehow finding a way to escape into a basement universe will allow one to escape entropy. But infinite, eternal immortality can only be for beings that have no begin. Personally hope for subjective immortality, that will be our only way to indefinitfly cheat death.

>>11540695
It will be everything. No simple utopia or dystopia awaits, but complex societies.

>>11309869
>until the sun burns out
Pfft, thinking that small. No, posthumans can survive atleast for around 10^100 years until the last black hole has evaporated. And by then we might have develloped methods to survive indefinifly thanks to vaccum energy, reversible computing or even escape the end via basement universi. And even then what is simple pleasure compared to the infinity?

>>11305870
Instead of pleasure I seek autosentience, knowledge and experience. Mere hedonism doesn't satisfy me - there exists a qualitative difference of contentment. I wish to maximise potential, explore all inner and outer spaces, learn everything there is and find a way to reverse entropy. Only if eternity proofs impossible and standing at the end of everything I would consider to jump.

>>9862264
Because I want to know how the universe works, explore the possibilities, gain new ideas and knowledge. Getting dopamin isn't happiness, it is artificial induced pleasure and the methods to get those kind of "pleasures" today it will destroy your life. If you have to be a hedonist, be a epicurean hedonist.