Frank Mayhar wrote: > The other is that I'm reasonably sure that a greatly extended > lifespan would not change a human in any really significant way. It > would just be life, but without the bit at the very end, the > ceasing-to-exist stuff. We do, after all, live in the present. As it is we don't get the same joy of discovery as a 4 year old has. The older we get, the more jaded we would tend to become. > Personally, I think that someone who dislikes the idea of living a > very, very long time (essentially forever) is either in a lot of pain > or is simply very unimaginative. I've been the former but never the > latter. :-) Imagination takes some work. Look around you and see lots of people who have slowed down their imaginations - possibly all of us. I like what a world class mountain climber once told me. He thinks he keeps trying to recreate the delicious thrill he had as a child climbing a fence. Trouble is, it gets harder and harder as he gets better and better. Which means that to have a satisfactory real - real - real long life, we need to do really work at this. Sethra has her methods, we know a couple of them. Gods have their fights and interests, but we know less about how they stay interested.