Re: Modern Pascal\'s Wager adaptation: For real.
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"If science continues to progress exponentially, there will certainly come a time where people no longer have to die of natural causes."
What makes you so certain?
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Exactly... Have you heard of asymptotes?
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I understand this argument, but I think it must ultimately fail to the mechanistic nature of human beings. We are machines. Machine parts can be replaced in the event of wear and failure. I have no doubt that a '69 Camaro can be kept in working order indefinitely, tens of thousands of years, even if none of the parts are original.
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