Concept of Immortality

Is immortality about eternal life or eternal illusion?

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33 mins

Discover humanity’s timeless obsession with immortality, from Gilgamesh to cryonics and digital minds. Explore how religion, philosophy, and science each promise freedom from death in their own ways. Also examine how life’s perpetual quest for lasting meaning reveals immortality as both a dream and a mirror of fear.

Ep 1:

Gilgamesh's Scream Against Death

From ancient Uruk to modern minds, explore how Gilgamesh's terror of death birthed humanity's oldest quest—and the elaborate beliefs, East and West, we've built to deny mortality.

Ep 2:

Faith, Code, and the Frozen Dead

Step inside a Florida church worshipping cryonics and a digital frontier chasing mind uploads—where science becomes faith, and immortality's price may be steeper than imagined.

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Sebastian

Level 10 · 7 mo ago

gilgamesh spiraling is literally me at 3am lol. uploading my brain to a computer sounds terrifying though because my intrusive thoughts would crash the server. i’ll just stick to my retinol and hope for the best