<em>Reversible Destiny</em> Questionnaire -- 1996

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Reversible Destiny Questionnaire -- 1996

STAY ALIVE STAYING ALIVE

A MEASURED OR MATURE RESPONSE TO THESE MATTERS IS YET TO BE FOUND. ITS EITHER FAITH OR NOTHING. THOSE NOT ADOPTING A PIE-IN-THE-SKY ATTITUDE REMAIN CONVINCED THAT NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ARE MORTAL. THE DEFEATIST ATTITUDE TOWARD MORTALITY RUNS RAMPANT. ANOTHER POSSIBILTY: REVERSIBLE DESTINY A FRONTAL ATTACK ON MORTALITY ITSELF.

REVERSIBLE DESTINY QUESTIONNAIRE THIS QUESTIONNAIRE INVITES QUESTIONS AS MUCH AS ANSWERS. PREFERENCE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANSWERS THAT TAKE THE FORM OF ACTION.

Human mortality need not be inevitable. How does this statement sit with you? Human mortality is a given condition. But could it be that it is only provisionally a given? We may be bound to an apparently intractable so-called human destiny simply because we have been unable to gather enough information on our own behalf and to coordinate it properly. Are we in the throes of an inexorably abominable condition that, in effect, is nothing but a sad consequence of the left hands not knowing what the right is doing? Surely there has never been a sufficiently diversified approach to the study of the body in relation to the universe, and only recently has an efficient coordinating of information from existing branches of research become possible. Wheres the harm, then, in proceeding on the premise that human mortality theoretically can be amended? Just as people throughout the ages and well into the nineteenth century dismissed out of hand the possibility of human flight, so too have people ruled out and continue to rule out the possibility of a nonmortal human life. An entirely new order of architectural surround the airplane had to be engineered before human flight became fact. Should we not now, at the start of a new millennium, be busy at work on architectural surrounds that directly address the daunting problems of mortality? Every architectural surround augments the body proper to some degree. In order to become nonmortal, the body proper needs a new degree of augmentation. The body proper in combination with an architectural surround constitutes an architectural body. What architectural surrounds promote the most long-lasting architectural bodies?

Shouldnt cities be dedicated to the perpetuation and further invention of human life? What if simply walking through a city you could study all you need to know and more? Would you not like to live within surroundings specifically constructed to elicit from you a great number of possible ways one more surprising than the next for you to exist as a sensorium? The architectural surround can greatly influence the storage rate or recycling rate of transformatory massenergy or spacetimemassenergy. How can we go about assessing which conditions are most conducive to maximum storage and recycling? Would you be willing to live your life as part of an architectural research project directed toward helping mortals cease to be mortal? Do you want to live in an apartment or house that can help you determine the nature and extent of interactions between you and the universe? What lengths would you be willing to go to, or how much inconvenience would you be wiling to put up with, in order to counteract the usual human destiny of having to die? How much joy would you be willing to endure in order to secure a possibly uninterrupted (endless) future?

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