Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
This quote was paraphrased by Ken Wilber in a talk with Andrew Cohen on Immortality and Enlightenment. In the talk they both acknowledge that immortality (or at least radical life-extension) is on the horizon. Instead of getting into the details of biotechnology and nanotechnology they discuss the existential and spiritual implications of this development. Excellent discussion, which was transcribed earlier and appeared in WIE (see it here). They also have a developmental criticism of Kurzweil and friends, which I think are right on…
