A couple of years ago, there was this information flowing around on the internet that “immortality is mathematically impossible”, and as an average consumer I just accepted it. Today, it randomly clicked me that I should ask why.
Q1: Is this claim even true? Because we already know that immortal jellyfishes exist and they can reverse aging (hopefully I’m not wrong here).
Q2: How does math play a role in this claim? (really curious about this one)
Lastly: I don’t know if i should flair this post as ‘Biology’ or ‘Math’?
In: Mathematics
The only way that statement makes any sense is that it’s simply a re-statement of the idea that mathematics informs the physics of the universe as we understand it, and as best we can tell the universe will eventually end as the universe gets colder and loses energy, and therefore we can conclude that we will also eventually end, making immortality impossible.
But that’s just a fancy way of saying “everything will end one day at some point”, which is hardly a groundbreaking philosophy, seeing as when humans say “immortal” they usually mean not dying of old age on the scale of human existence, not a universal scale.
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