#nanomites

Me to Miles Upshur in “Outlast” about Walrider, prior to realizing Walrider is a nanomite swarm

Last time I stated that I believed that Immortality is possible to achieve and I spoke that the ethics behind whether Immortality should be achieved is what will/can prevent it. Before we get into whether it is ethical or not we need to understand what ethics is and how they are determined. Ethics are in laymen terms right and wrong. Right and wrong in turn is determined by what a society thinks, in fact what is right and wrong can be determined by anyone. The thing is that since right and wrong is determined by society, whether immortality is achievable will also be in turn be decided by society. As of right now society is at a crossroads on this issue, in social standards both sides are ethical. As an individual I try to break away from societies influence and ponder things myself although I am sure I fail to do this quite often and am just unaware of it, as I said before everyone is right when it comes to ethics however society will enforce what it thinks is right. Personally I say people should have the ability to choose if/when this comes to be as this is a life changing decision of course this could be abused and used against people that don’t have it...  I am not fully aware of how much damage nanomites could heal but I do find it somewhat plausible that if you were to throw someone equipped with them into lava they wouldn’t regenerate.

What is immortality? A very loose definition would be to live on indefinitely. Of course that can mean anything from being remembered, going into a history book, making a fresh copy of yourself once every few decades,  finding a way for your personality to stay intact or to keep your body intact forever. I can’t speak for other people but keeping my body intact forever is the most appealing one to me, I believe it can be done through the use of Nanomites in the near future. Nanomites can repair tissue cells today and I find it feasible that in the future they will be able to fully fix bodies; this would mean that they could heal missing limbs, muscles and organs. It may be even possible for Nanomites to cure cancer and all other forms of disease (aging considered a disease) this would make everyone equipped with Nanomites immortal. The major issue behind this is the ethics, but this is a discussion for another time.