“Semantics” is simply “meaning”. If something has a different meaning, the equation no longer solves the same way.
If you feel defensive and want ways to put someone down, you can replace “semantics” with “sophism” or something like that.
> I'd rather live a few centuries than tell myself that.
But you can’t, can you? So might as well look into what life, death, and immortality might really be, beyond the naive and wrong intuitions we have picked up from fiction books about vampires.
Unless you believe in life after death (which I would not blame you for as many do, among scientists included), there is no span of time available to you in which you are not alive.
“Semantics” is simply “meaning”. If something has a different meaning, the equation no longer solves the same way.
If you feel defensive and want ways to put someone down, you can replace “semantics” with “sophism” or something like that.
> I'd rather live a few centuries than tell myself that.
But you can’t, can you? So might as well look into what life, death, and immortality might really be, beyond the naive and wrong intuitions we have picked up from fiction books about vampires.
Unless you believe in life after death (which I would not blame you for as many do, among scientists included), there is no span of time available to you in which you are not alive.