No.

Instead, let's fulfill ourselves for the sake of humanity.

The problem here is simple. None of us has a crystal ball that can reveal the future. In fact, although we believe in truth and right, it's important to understand that these are bound by two parameters: 1) how much insight and mastery we as a civilization have so far acquired, and 2) what kinds of insight and mastery we as a biological organism are indeed capable of acquiring.

We are not gods. We are pieces of matter and energy. Truth and right are attributes of human psychology, not subatomic particle physics. They are the most important gifts we have, but they are given to us only when we have earned them through hard work.

It's important to remember how wrong we often are, to cultivate modesty about personal growth and social progress. In Woody Allen's 1973 comedy, , a jazz musician and owner of the "Happy Carrot" Health-Food store in 1973, is subjected to cryopreservation without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. When the scientists bring him around, they become concerned. This morning for breakfast he requested something called wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk. [laughs] Oh, yes. Those were the charmed substances that some years ago were felt to contain life-preserving properties. You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or hot fudge? Those were thought to be unhealthy, precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.

It's a gag, yes, but insightful nevertheless. In my own lifetime, nutritional guidelines have flip-flipped on a regular basis. When I was young, eating fat made you fat, and eating margarine was better than eating butter. These days, eating fat gives you energy, eating carbohydrates make you fat and butter is better.

When I was 10 I got rheumatic fever and spent a month in the hospital. When I got out my doctor told me that my heart had suffered very little damage and that, if I abstained from sports and all strenuous activities, I would live well into my 40's.

As a result I became a bookworm. I was afraid to run or wrestle or Which was fortunate because now I'm a bookish scholar. But people should like infirmities just because it makes them more suitable for a creative life in a certain time and place.