ג’ייסון סילבה – המוות כבר אינו מקובל על המין האנושי – Jason Silva Mortality

“Death has become impossible for mankind
and is no longer acceptable” – Alan Harrington, The Immortal

Well, I think his words can be summarized
Alan Harrington’s immortal narrator when he says:

“Any philosophy that accepts death should itself be considered dead
It’s a philosophy with meaningless questions, and a worn-out attitude.”

I agree with him.
I don’t think there’s a way to make peace
With death, with mortality, with the human condition.
With the fact that we can contemplate the infinite cosmos,
And yet, end up being food for worms

I find it burdensome on the heart, paralyzing, depressing, sad
Beyond all measurable limits.
The idea, that everything – and everyone you love
Going to be taken away from you, unacceptable to me.

I think this is simply unacceptable
Come to terms with these conditions that the universe has supposedly imposed on us.

If the cosmos is comfortable with entropy (atrophy), that is one thing.
But that doesn’t mean I should be comfortable with entropy either.

In fact, I am a member of the Kingdom of Life!
And life is anti-entropic.
Life is moving towards greater complexity and organization.

As Kurzweil says, more knowledge, more science, more,
More, and more possibilities are spreading.

And some people say that maybe death is an evolutionary design
Designed to get rid of the old to make room for the new.
It may have been a stepping stone in the past, an obvious repetition,
A preliminary way to distribute the variety of information.

Sex and death – genes are mixed together to create something new,
and kill the old shells.

But what if we could create new rules?
What if we master biotechnology?
A situation in which we create software that writes its own hardware.
and begin to change the rules of life.
We will begin to create this diversity.
We will begin to be the type of consciousness that works here.
Finally it will be an intelligent design.

At this point, death will no longer be necessary.
And we can create a world without loss
And without all those encounters with grief.

And this may sound like a kind of manic fantasy.
But I think that’s what humanity has always done
Articulated her wishes through her art
To be eternal, to be infinite.

Even Miguel de Unamuno wrote,
“Nothing that is eternal is not real. “
That’s why we write poetry
and build cathedrals that try to create canals
As a topographical statement.

That’s why we commemorate beautiful moments,
and create amazing sculptures, and write amazing songs.
We like to perpetuate ourselves.

We want to say, as Alain de Botton said,
We want to carve our names.
We want to say, I’ve been here.
I exist.
I felt something and I’m influencing.

And we do make an impact.

And that is why death has become a coercion on mankind
And I am no longer accepted, in my own world.

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Translated and synchronized by Ilan Aviv – people4ever.com