Full screen recommended.
Carl Sagan,
"Why Living Forever Would Destroy You"
"You've been told that living forever would be the greatest gift. Science disagrees. In this video, we explore one of the most uncomfortable ideas in philosophy and biology: that mortality isn't a flaw in the design of human life - it's the design itself. Without death, urgency disappears. Without urgency, meaning collapses. And without meaning, what exactly are you living forever for? We look at what neuroscience tells us about memory across centuries, what ecology reveals about why death drives complexity, and what psychologist Laura Carstensen discovered about the people who are statistically the happiest humans alive - and why they're the ones closest to dying. This isn't a video about giving up. It's about understanding what finitude actually gives you - and why the engineers trying to delete it may be solving the wrong problem."
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