"Professor Yang, you mentioned the seal is to protect the finiteness of meaning, but what if life itself is meaning? Extending life is extending meaning itself. Do you see this logical gap?"
Manstein asked.
Weber's voice carried a unique excitement that researchers feel when faced with logical paradoxes: "He makes a good point. If life itself is the carrier of meaning, then extending life is extending the duration of meaning's existence. Compared to a fifty-year-old, a hundred-year-old person has more time to create, to love, to think. Viewed from this angle, extending life in itself expands the total amount of meaning. The seal limits the maximization of meaning, hence, the seal is bad."
"What if extended to two hundred years? Five hundred years? Immortality?" Yang Ping asked.
"Every increment of time has meaning. Another day is another day, another year is another year. According to this logic, there is no upper limit."
