You would be immortal and all basic amenities essential for physical survival would be provided. You can have the age of your body according to your choosing and your mind won’t blow off by accomodating endless amount of memory.
You can choose anything you desire and that too at any instant which may or may not exist in real life, like an endless supply of something or a companion with the same immortality powers as yours, but you won’t be able to change it in the future and there would be no going back. Also you cannot alter your mind in any way that would enable to let you tolerate living for eternity or not get bored of things.
Ideally you would want to have everything just to be sure but by asking you the minimum requirements, it would making it more interesting to know what you think you could do without or what matters to you the most.
I’d finally have time to read The Silmarillion.
I think The Good Place had an excellent take on this.
In the afterlife, people’s every desires were met, they could have orgasms lasting millennia, and they eventually just turned into mindless zombies because they’d essentially done and seen everything - multiple times.
To resolve this, they were given an option to walk through a “door” and cease existing any time they wanted. The idea of an “end” reignited the passions that had been lost and gave them something to look forward to.
I would need a life without the human animal nature to be such a god. I would tire of the hormone cycle. I already find it stupifying to some extent after less than 4 decades. Free my mind of this burden and give me perfect recall to expand my human memory byte. From there I will explore the universe, within the galaxy and beyond.
For me, it would essentially need to be a TARDIS.
Whenever I think of immortality I immediately go to the end of all other life and the idea of knowing that I would eventually be doomed to an inescapable existence of total isolation. Long before that, but hundreds of years from now, I am sure that I would go literally insane with boredom. I need to know that there will always be something new, different, and interesting. A TARDIS would allow me to go anywhere, anytime, with anyone.
I also fear eternal life in some preeminent imprisonment, either some form of external confinement, like being trapped at the bottom of the ocean by the crushing weight of the water around me, some form of locked-in syndrome. A TARDIS could operate on its own to save me from such a fate.
If eternity ever becomes too much, a TARDIS would also give some options to potentially end my existence.
That’s a great idea! I second it!
There is nothing that could be done to make me want to live for eternity. Do you know what’s boring after a billion years? Everything. Do you know how many billions are in infinity? All of them.
Eternity means that one day you’ll outlive the last black hole and you’ll be the only thing in a universe with, effectively, nothing but your imagination to keep you busy.
Would choose 45 as the age to stay. I would need an option to be able to die, in case the world I was on exploded or something, and some immortal companions. That’s the main requirements. I think in terms of getting bored, it would take a really long time if we could go all around this world and watch it changing, and eventually if it’s possible to get bored we would, it seems unavoidable.
In practice, I wouldn’t take this option since I already had kids. I think you have to choose one or the other, immortal beings can’t procreate, that’s the rules, it can only be one in, one out, not an increasing population and also it would be too sad to see my kids get old and die.
A lab, manufacturing capabilities for any kind of object and material, and possibly several companions. Plus a mineral-rich planet (best case would be inexhaustible) as well as a star. And a ship, preferably FTL, to change location after the star nears the end of its life. Of course also copies of the entire cultural database of humanity (books, songs, movies). Pets. A thriving ecosystem on the home planet.
