Conscious Agents and Why Dying Might Eventually Become Irrelevant

I've written before about the death of death - about how once our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality shifts we're destined to see time and space differently, and as a result have a deeper understanding of our full existence.    Dr. Donald Hoffman's theory of conscious agents takes a deep dive into this, and I recommend any of my readers pursue reading his work whenever they can get their hands on it.   It doesn't deal with death directly, but once you're in the middle of it, you will see clearly how it supports the obsolescence of death altogether, once we wrap our heads around it completely. 

Nima Arkani-Hamed also supports a companion proposition, but goes so far as to establish a timeline for potential deeper revelations, with a final emergence of a grand unified theory occurring somewhere around 50 years or so from now (give or take a few).   I can agree that perhaps science may be that far along in the progression of things, but for the theory of conscious agents and any accompanying grand unified field theory to make any real difference in the current materialist worldview, it's going to need a much wider dissemination than just the academic community.   

For the sake of brevity. Hoffman's theory postulates that reality as we perceive doesn't exist at all, but that we are conscious agents interacting with and perhaps even creating the environment we see by sheer virtue of the fact that we are observing it.  I could elaborate, but this simple definition of his theory will suffice for the point I'm making here.    Arkani-Hamed supports a doomed spacetime ideal: meaning that he, too, believes that the reality we see every day (and interact with) has no true basis in what is to be considered real.  

In the future, time may not be a rule by which we live, but instead one tool (among many)
that we learn to use within certain constructs. 

Let's take for a moment these theories as axioms.  Let's assume they are true. Assume that all we see and hear and touch and smell and taste exists only because we see/hear/touch/smell/taste it. 

Let that sink in for a minute. 

If we assume that's the case - and there may be good evidence to prove that it very well is indeed the case - what does this mean for life? And further, what does it mean for death? 

I believe that once this is verified, we will experience a very significant shift in three areas:

1. Life and living will take on a whole new meaning.  Life will no longer be viewed as a biological/biochemical construct (or phenomena based solely on carbon or proteins).  It will become something much broader, much more fundamental.  

2.  The meaning and concept of time will change for us. It will no longer be an absolute; instead we will view it as a tool by which to navigate certain constructs, but not a rule that applies universally.  It will become fluid. 

3. Biomechanical death will lose its meaning altogether.   It will become irrelevant that our cells decay.  We will see it as part of the cyclical nature of perpetual life, of which we will have much broader and much more fundamental understanding.    In other words, dying will become completed irrelevant.  

In my next post, I'll explore what these shifts mean in relation to how we view the advancement of civilization.