![]() It seems like it becomes some kind of a nightmare. I like Thai food just fine, but the prospect of having Thai food day after day after day after day for thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years no longer seems an attractive proposal. I have a friend who once claimed to me that he wanted to live forever so that he could have Thai food every day for the rest of, well, the rest of eternity. ![]() I think it’s very difficult, indeed I think it’s impossible, to think of anything you’d want to do forever. The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever. I think that no matter how we try to fill in the blank, it’s a very long blank. I think I already tipped my cards on this matter. Instead of asking what would it be like to continue living a longer kind of trajectory that humans have in the real world where you just get sicker and more and more frail and incapacitated, ask yourself not whether immortality of that sort would be valuable, but is it even so much as possible to describe a life that you would want to live forever? That’s the question I left you with last time. The question we turned to was, just let your imagination run free. Professor Shelly Kagan: We’ve been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable. What Kind of Life Is Worth Living Forever? Death PHIL 176 - Lecture 19 - Immortality Part II The Value of Life, Part IĬhapter 1. ![]()
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