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Yes, if I did find myself in that situation I would be with Asimov as well.
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Hmmmm finding myself immortal while living in this universe?
I probably wouldn't mind it for a very long time. I can imagine seeing how humans evolve or destroy themselves and subsequently what other life evolves in what forms on this planet. And then eventually gaining enough knowledge from centuries of study, myself, to build a ship or something and extend my senses to explore this universe.
In the words of Battlestar Galactica, I would like to feel the cosmic winds of a supernova wash over me.
I don't think I would be bored on the matter of millions of years but perhaps on the scale of billions. Maybe I would come back after some billion years to this system where my existence started to see the sun expand and engulf Mercury and evaporate the Earth's atmosphere if it wasn't gone already.
I hadn't really thought about it until now but there is already some sort of morbid beauty in natural eschatology even without religion adding to it.
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