Glossy

Hello, I am Glossy and I found this site while trying to figure out why trees that are near water seem to always bend towards the water. No... really. I like studying the human mind and hope to one day get paid to do it. gee... all those aspirations sound sort of silly now...

A concept that Fogo's cartoon touches upon is that immortality would essentially remove all drive and purpose from our lives. Humans fear the idea of death because it would be impossible for a creature that did not fear death to remain in the human gene pool for any reasonable amount of time. Avoiding death is one of our most primal (if not our only) drives. Therefore a huge amount of our instincts are based around motivating us to eat, sleep, drink and any other practices necessary for sustaining our own lives. I wonder; if we were to attain immortality, that is, if we were able to comfortably survive without needing to eat, drink, et cetera; would we still feel the need to? Further more, would we feel 'comfortable' if we refrained from eating, drinking, et cetera? We have evolved knowing that death is a high probability, and that it should be avoided. Mentally, would we be able to cope with the confusion of no longer needing our base instincts? Would we still have the purpose in life that we have today? Surely our ultimate goal is to prolong our life, yet if we became immortal; our ultimate goal would become pointless.