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If the human lifespan doubled, do you think we would spend more time being creative and productive, or would we merely have more idle time?
I always wondered this, if we could live to be 150 or 200 years old, would we dig deeper into the problems that plague our society and solve more of them, or would we merely find more ways to enjoy ourselves longer and idle away our longer existence.
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October 09, 2009 02:07 AM
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There are times when I feel that just when I've got one of life's conundrums figured out, I've already moved on to another point in my life where the conundrum isn't nearly as relevant or influential to my current life since the conundrum became a conundrum in the first place (that's a great word, conundrum...someone should name a company that!).
If my lifespan was doubled, I'd like to think that I'd take the necessary time to figure stuff out, and then take the same amount of time to actually take advantage of my wisdom before the knowledge became moot.
If my lifespan was doubled, I'd like to think that I'd take the necessary time to figure stuff out, and then take the same amount of time to actually take advantage of my wisdom before the knowledge became moot.
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October 09, 2009 01:02 AM
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I think we would see a little of both. Some people would see a doubled lifespan as a way to spend more time relaxing and some would see it as an opportunity to be twice as productive. There would also be people who mix a bit of the two together - to still be able to accomplish twice as much in one lifetime and still have extra time to stop and smell the roses so-to-speak.
Personally, I would see a doubled lifespan as an opportunity to do both: be more productive, and still have time to relax a bit and enjoy the one life I do have.
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Personally, I would see a doubled lifespan as an opportunity to do both: be more productive, and still have time to relax a bit and enjoy the one life I do have.
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October 09, 2009 02:38 PM
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If the human lifespan were doubled, that means you would need double the resources to survive. So, really nothing would change. We would still have to work to survive, leaving little time to solve the world's problems.
Now, if you are talking about wisdom gained over the years and applying that wisdom to solve today's problems, I really don't believe it would make a difference in that case either because, as the world changes and evolves, humans tend to not evolve that much in a lifetime. That's why typically old people are said to be stuck in their ways. They remember how the world was when they were young and tend to hold onto that view of the world. It's only when the youngsters grow up seeing how their parents and grandparents are and the error of their ways that they tend to go out and fix those problems. Each generation grows up trying to fix what was wrong with their parent's and grandparent's world and then their kids will grow up and see things about THEIR parent's world that needs to be changed. So, really, I think extneding the human life span would do more harm to our evolution than good.
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Now, if you are talking about wisdom gained over the years and applying that wisdom to solve today's problems, I really don't believe it would make a difference in that case either because, as the world changes and evolves, humans tend to not evolve that much in a lifetime. That's why typically old people are said to be stuck in their ways. They remember how the world was when they were young and tend to hold onto that view of the world. It's only when the youngsters grow up seeing how their parents and grandparents are and the error of their ways that they tend to go out and fix those problems. Each generation grows up trying to fix what was wrong with their parent's and grandparent's world and then their kids will grow up and see things about THEIR parent's world that needs to be changed. So, really, I think extneding the human life span would do more harm to our evolution than good.
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October 09, 2009 07:10 PM
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Well, considering that dimentia and other mental diseases set in before eighty for many of us, I think that doubling the years might just create a planet ful of zombies!
I know what you mean, though. What happens if you tell the average person that something is due on Friday? They start in on it Wednesday or Thursday, right? So, what if Tuesday night you told them the deadline was extended one week. My best bet is that they will then sit on the project until the next Wednesday, and do whatever they want in the extra time.
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I know what you mean, though. What happens if you tell the average person that something is due on Friday? They start in on it Wednesday or Thursday, right? So, what if Tuesday night you told them the deadline was extended one week. My best bet is that they will then sit on the project until the next Wednesday, and do whatever they want in the extra time.
Not eveyrone, but lots.
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