Immortal man: religious fiction or future of science?

Immortality is a concept which is embedded not only in the religious systems, but also in the scientific hypotheses, concepts and theories. Religion, well-founded by a belief in the coexistence of this world and other worlds, is also based on the recognition of the superiority of the transcendent, the highest value of the absolute and the transcendent. A person with the ability to merge with the beginning inaccessible to sensuality is a dual being by its nature. The dualism of human nature nourishes faith in the achievement of immortality and the belief in the achievement of immortality by a human feeds dualism. The human is the holder of an immortal soul and a perishable body. The human is eternal (the concept of immortality becomes redundant) and confined (res extensa). Traditional for many people, is the point of view of the impossibility of achieving immortality by a person in the world without God. However, many scientists who reject belief in a transcendent principle are still trying to take measures to facilitate the increase in life expectancy, seeking to create a cure for old age, an "elixir" of life, a panacea for all diseases. Fundamental problems directly related to the concept of immortality are the following: firstly, the problem of finding the meaning of life and the meaning of life landmarks in the world where the binary opposition of otherworldly / worldly is destroyed; secondly, the identification of the metamorphosis of self-identification of a human preparing to gain longevity; thirdly, mental simulation to solve the problem of the meaning of life in a practical newfound immortality; fourthly, search for probable differences in relation to the meaning of life of a person who has not attained longevity (or does not know about the upcoming longevity) and a human who finds practical immortality. The notion of human mortality is immanent to philosophical systems. Some of them accept death as a tribute, others, on the contrary, state the crisis of the being of a human arising in connection with the realization of the fact of death. Alternative discourse is the discourse of trans-humanism which illuminates the other pole, a different vision of the future of a human (being?). Transhumanists offer to go from death episteme to life in the Web, to life absolutely caused by a mechanical Other. Change of the territory of a human as a natural being and reterritorialization in the space, the dependence on the operation of the machine (" machine aid"?): these are the aspirations of transhumanism, a conceivable ultimate dream. Thus, there is a need in developing and strengthening of a different ideological paradigm, alternative to the ideas of "death" and radical transhumanist ideas. Not only the creation of a theory of immortology but also people's real knowledge of its precepts are a priority.

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