Why Immortality is Already Within our Grasp and How we Could Achieve it

Chris Herd
3 min readFeb 9, 2018

What if we are looking at immortality all wrong?

What if our ability to imagine forever is misconstrued by our perception of time? We experience things linearly using an arbitrary scale which focuses on the revolution of a planet circling a mass of gas, which informs our opinion of what it means to survive infinitely. Each part of that equation must be scaled linearly or extended in order for a new reality to materialise.

But what if we could alter the individual elements of those equations? What if it’s already here? What if it’s within our grasp and all that we require to access it is a neural net? A machine, neural interlinking which enables our experience to be shaped by the processing power afforded to us. Life could be extended by hundreds of thousands of years instantaneously upon connection. Our perception of time would be supplemented by a computers processing power where we can process as quickly as the transistors allow.

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Chris Herd

CEO / Founder / Coach @FirstbaseHQ Empowering people to work in their lives not live at work ✌️✌