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    It is not the case that Bernard Williams argued in 'The Makability of the Self' that immortality would drain life of categorical desires, producing tedium rather than meaningful engagement, making immortality no solution to futility.

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    • 1.Categorical desires need not depend on mortality; love, creativity, and discovery can remain intrinsically valuable regardless of timespan.
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    • 2.Infinite time allows new categories of desires and experiences we cannot currently imagine, preventing the exhaustion Williams predicts.
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    • 3.Tedium from immortality is a psychological claim about human adaptation, not a logical necessity; our values and interests could evolve indefinitely.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Categorical desires (goals we value intrinsically) depend on scarcity and finitude to maintain significance and motivational force.
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    • 2.Infinite time would eventually exhaust meaningful projects, relationships, and experiences, collapsing them into repetition and habituation.
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    • 3.Solving the problem of futility requires meaningful engagement, which requires genuine risk of failure—immortality eliminates this risk entirely.
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