Why do people age?

[mdk]

Kaga said
I thought MDK was already on his way to becoming an android?

Cyborg. Androids are robots shaped like humans; a Cyborg is a human (or other organism) with cybernetic parts (typically an occular implant)

[HollywoodMole]

mdk said
Cyborg. Androids are robots shaped like humans; a Cyborg is a human (or other organism) with cybernetic parts (typically an occular implant)

Why not make yourself an android?

[Hank]

The simple, obvious answer that hasn't been proposed yet (I believe) is that without death there can no evolution, no change and no progress. Forests burn to make place for new life that rises from its ashes, predators keep grazing herbivore populations in check and senescence prevents overpopulation in all things. Stars are born and die, mountains rise and fall, and life inevitably ends in death from which new things are born.

It also probably has something to do with entropy and that a system in which all life is infinite would be unsustainable, but I digress.

[CidTheKid]

Have you ever made a recording of a recording? A copy of a copy?

[Vordak]

Thus is the will of chaos god Tzeench.

[TheMadAsshatter]

Answer: trans/posthumanism.

[mdk]

HollywoodMole said
Why not yourself an android?

You can't become an android, because 'androids' are purely synthetic or artificial -- in their most advanced form, a computer that has been made into something approaching human. Cyberization is the opposite process, in which you begin with an organic creature and gradually (or dramatically) convert it to use robotic/mechanical parts. 'Borgs' began as living things, with 'ghosts' of their own. Advanced AIs can replicate biological thinking patterns and organic processes, but there's some debate on whether or not they can ever acquire their own 'ghost.'

[Joegreenbeen]

Marik said
This exact question is why one day, I wish to make android bodies that we can insert out conscious selves into to practically make humans immortal. Although I doubt that I’d have the resources to pull off such a task, it’s even more unlikely that such a feat would be accomplished in our lifetime. And even if it was, and I wasn’t the one to invent it, it would be so expensive that I wouldn’t even be able to afford it. Uh, I’m actually really terrified of death. The idea of not existing is frightening beyond compensation. In fact, I’d probably accept existing in a proverbial hell instead of not at all. Maybe.

My dad always says it's not death he is afraid of, but the pain before.