Is immortality possible? Can science put an end to death?
Jason Silva seems certain that the answer is yes. Looking ahead for a moment...let's say we get there. Envision a place where consciousness is re-engineered without the turmoil of the mortal coil...
But will we ever truly be immune to hazard, even if the singularity is reached?
One line grabbed me particularly:
"Imagination," Silva says, "allows us to think beyond our limitations to conceive of what might be and go further than we ever thought possible."
I invited him to become a member of the Imagination Age Network in Loveland, an experiment in Detroit created by Jerry Paffendorf. Loveland explores new concepts about community and the micro-ownership of shared real estate. Loveland is 1,000,000 square inches in all, made up of individual colonies. The first colony, Plymouth, is 10,000 square inches and has 588 "inchvestors." The Imagination Age Network is a 1000-inch neighborhood in Plymouth. Our goal is to see how big we can make an inch.
The yellow rectangle is the Imagination Age Network in Plymouth, shown amid the parcels of 588 other inchvestors. For more information about Loveland, click here. Jason Silva's inch is called "Turning Into Gods." He chose the address "Intentions: 128" for his project. The Imagination Age network is divided into eight shared zones of 122 inches each. Intentions, the second zone, includes inches 123-245.
The first step in growing Jason's project is to watch the video below and leave comments on this blog post with your thoughts on possibility, science and technology, a grand unfolding instigated by humans, and, oh yeah, "making ourselves permanent."
TURNING INTO GODS - 'Concept Teaser' from jason silva on Vimeo.
As a woman, I find it especially interesting that the voice of women is absent. I ponder at the men I have known who have strangely wanted to live forever, and I wonder do they deny the life-death cycle because they are incapable of giving birth? What is this fascination with transcending death and being able to give birth themselves to themselves? Is it because we have alienated ourselves so much from the natural mother earth and her cycles? Is it self-aggrandizement that makes a man wish to live in this body now forever or is it the fear of death that we cannot know or face? If you say to yourself "Death does not exist." And then ask yourself "Is this true?" What does your beating heart tell you? What does your soul tell you?
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