Can We Change Our Fate? An Existential Vision for Immortality | Explorations
Fate is the power of the unchosen to determine your life. It is real and we all know it, or we would never be frustrated. The key question is: can we overcome our fate? Is fate compatible with freedom? An existential strategy is the only way to overcome the power of fate and avoid being a pawn of your environment and history. To conquer fate, we must pursue a scientific understanding of reality, and overcome our limitations. The result is a life ready for immortality. Long-term planning in short-sighted Western corporations is 10 years, 30 at most. China has a 100 year + strategy for its space program. The Vatican, the oldest continuous city-state with the greatest intelligence network and treasury of any modern country, has been around for at least 1600 years. It thinks in terms all of human history. AI proponents and transhumanist tell us we may soon live to be 200, or even being as deathless as the Homeric gods. Clearly, we are not ready for such time scales. Most individuals, corporations, and governments lack the most important thing: a strategy for existence itself, the very thing required to “plan for immortality.” This demands a clear vision do what humans truly are and can become, and a vision and plan for living a life beyond current time scales. How do we prepare to live among the stars? We need to know how to exist here on earth. Instructor: Samuel Loncar, Ph.D. | Yale University