Of course, no individual human can liver forever, at least not yet haha. My question is will the human race go on forever outlasting all other animal species? I mean at least until the Universe ends, if it ends at all that is. Given our intelligence, resources, and ever growing technological advancements it's hard to see the human race becoming extinct any time soon. Having said that, it could just be that it's an illusion that we tend to see ourselves as far more superior than what we really are. And maybe it could even be something completely unforeseen that would wipe out the human race. Or could be that we end up becoming too advanced that we end up wiping ourselves out. Some have even argued that robot soldiers fighting other nations is a natural progression. What do you think?
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Now, whether we will disappear in the sense that our great-great-great-great...[200 times]...grandchildren will be wiped out by something - this is harder to answer. Nothing in our modern knowledge suggests that a civilisation is bound to cross some dangerous threshold that causes it to self-destruct, and a cosmic event of required proportions is unlikely, especially since in a century or two we will probably feel as comfortable living on other planets and in other star systems as we are on Earth today. At the same time, our sample size is limited to just one civilisation, and we are obviously biased when judging its success and projected performance. Maybe there is "Great barrier(s)" that cause most civilisations eventually to encounter a challenge that leads to its demise, although I struggle to even imagine what it could be. I doubt it is something as trivial as runaway climate change, robot rebellion, nuclear war or the grey goo scenario. It would have to be something more subtle, something less predictable. The theory I like is that, as a species becomes super-intelligent, it, through some reasoning incomprehensible to us, decides that it is better to not live than live, and commits a mass-suicide. Regardless, whatever it is, if exists, it is not something we can reasonably prepare for.
I think it is too early to hypothesise whether we will make it as a civilisation, or be broken. We know far too little about the world, as well as ourselves, to know what our lives will be like just 50 years from now, let alone in the distant future. Some people like to think about what we can do to prepare for the catastrophic changes in the solar energy output a billion years from now... But the reality is that, if whatever becomes of us is still around in the Solar system by then, then it will have the existence far outside our imagination, and whatever challenges it will face are not going to be comprehensible to us any time soon.
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