Re: You Are In A Groundhog Day Scenario

In article <g0e111$gbu$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
says...
> Reminds me of a similar question I once thought of. Say you were told
you 
> could be given bodily immortality at any point just by asking. 

As well, opposed to what? Faced with immediate harm if not accepting I'd 
surely go for it. Without that limitation I'd wait for a better offer. 
With possibilities like that around, surely better solutions will soon 
come up.

> The thing is, 
> your body will stay *exactly* the same as how it is at that point. Same 
> haircut, same minor complaints, same problems.
> If you have a small cancer 
> you didn't know about, it'll stay but it will never get bigger or
smaller. 
> If you develop an itch as you step into the immortalising machine,
you'll 
> have that itch forever.

Bodies don't really work that way. You'd essentially not function if 
your body was frozen like that. How about digesting, eliminating, brain 
chemistry and so on? Are you saying whatever's in your digestive tract 
will forever stay there, and you'll be unable to sweat or cry, and all 
your blood vessels become rigidly the size they were when you stepped 
in, and does your heart stop beating and lungs keep the same air in them 
forever?

And even if you're an unchanging statue, what's to stop anyone from 
giving you a haircut? Will your hair become unobtainium that nothing can 
cut? 
 
> What do you do? Work out for 6 months? Get lasik? Risk your whatever
medical 
> conditions you have now gettting worse?

Presuming nothing so outrageous as you proposed, but just generally, 
keeping the same problems I have now, yes, I'd probably strive to get 
into better shape and looks. If a tem****ary effort gives a permanent 
result it seems silly not to make it.

I really would like to get rid of my cold allergy before freeze-framing 
my body, though that seems impossible. So far the only thing I've been 
told is "it can go away by itself". After 9 years I'm still waiting.

rgds,
netcat