Our mind won't let us live forever though

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Forgetting myself and losing my keys right when I sat in that Uber causes me frustration and anxiety than preparing to write a difficult exams. When I attempt to recall something, it feels like I'm trying to retrieve something forgotten a long time ago.

And that issue makes it harder to understand people who want to live eternally. I am a person that has fantasized about immortally more times than I can count. Because I imagined being able to do things I know I can because of the limited time but unlimited time can and will bring its own problems.

The biggest issue is that we are designed to die. So finding that one pill to make as live on forever is not enough, we might have to change our entire design to be ok.

I don't understand how people can think of more when their mind is already full. In the time I was waiting in my car, I saw someone I recognized from the grocery store about 2 weeks ago, and somehow I recalled their face without any reason to. If someone were to live for several hundred years, I think that area of the brain would just fill and close. Even with lots of brain cells, the brain is like any other system in the universe, very much finite. Once there are no more brain cells, there is no more brain activity.

It's a mystery to me the way the brain can just delete memories. I remember thinking two events were actually one. I think that shows how imperfect the brain is. I think the brain has to give up on something in order to keep going. It's strange how a person can become a different person by no longer having memories of their past. A lot of the distinct traits that make someone unique are being deteriorated over time. My memory is going to be defined by how much of my childhood I can remember. Those who want to live forever I will never understand. It's going to be a long time. Perhaps so long that it becomes a punishment. But maybe it may not be that much of a long time bor the same reason. Since our brain will delete memories, it may be a long time but based on how memory limits, we'll forget the eternity we've already lived.

But even if the body survives, it is likely that all mental and physical functions would be lost, which would change the original mind. I find that to be the most disturbing element of immortality.

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