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7/19/2013 12:48:54 AM
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How do you think religion would deal with bio-synthetic immortality?
So we see this concept in sci-fi some times, and here about it now and then in some news articles, the idea being that we may eventually escape the decay of our bodies by either transferring our minds to machines, or maintaining them indefinitely with machines.
Were this technology to arise in our lifetimes, how do you think religion would handle it? I would argue that one of the most appealing thing about religion to most people is it's ability to address the fears and anxiety people have about death. Were technology to ever completely supplant/make irrelevant this function of religion, would religion as a whole reject the technology, or embrace it as the realization of their desires? Does the answer change with the religion?
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I like how so many just ignored the OP and started saying that it could never happen. Anyways, I think that the religious orders would roll with the times. The message would be tweaked, but the content the same. There would be some hold outs, that would refuse whatever process, but in a hundred years they would die off.
