“Living to 500 would fundamentally change what it means to be human”
Agree
- Mortality defines human experience
- Would end urgency and drive
- Relationships would lose meaning
- Risk-taking would disappear
- Identity requires finitude
Disagree
- Core human nature is deeper
- Just more time for same experiences
- We'd adapt like always
- Consciousness remains unchanged
- More life means more meaning
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