Originally Posted by
Alric
Obviously we are fairly far from living forever. However if you find technology to increase your life by 20 years, you have 20 years to find a way to increase your life 20 more years, which gives you 20 years to find a way to live 20 more years, and so on. Since technology in a lot of areas continues to become more and more advance exponentially, the speed you gain new medical technologies should at some point out pace aging.
Its just a question of, when that point is, and will humans eventually hit a wall where they can no longer advance. I personally don't think there is a limit on how much we can do. Its just a matter of gaining more knowledge before we can do it.
I was thinking about this the other day though. Why do people believe in immortality in afterlives, but think physical immortality is stupid? If you think you will learn everything in the physical world and so you don't want to live forever, doesn't the same apply to heaven? Won't you eventually get bored of heaven?