Transhumanism

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35786771

What a load of crap.

Originally posted by Seitse
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35786771

What a load of crap.

'Why are you here?'

Originally posted by Seitse
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35786771

What a load of crap.

Really? You don't think they will attempt to upload the neuronet of a human brain to a computer? I'm calling it "neuronet" for lack of a better word.

Originally posted by josephw
Really? You don't think they will attempt to upload the neuronet of a human brain to a computer? I'm calling it "neuronet" for lack of a better word.

I think that without the endocrine system, all they can upload is a simulation
of certain traits of a human. We are our 'gut', for a lack of a better word,
so without that part there's human.

Originally posted by Seitse
I think that without the endocrine system, all they can upload is a simulation
of certain traits of a human. We are our 'gut', for a lack of a better word,
so without that part there's human.

Au contraire: We are our immaterial beings
i.e., our minds and memory centers and volitions which are the decision makers within our souls.
Our material bodies are temporal homes for our immaterial beings until our brain waves cease.
Then our souls are transported to one of two addresses which we choose for eternity.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Au contraire: We are our immaterial beings
i.e., our minds and memory centers and volitions which are the decision makers within our souls.
Our material bodies are temporal homes for our immaterial beings until our brain waves cease.
Then our souls are transported to one of two addresses which we choose for eternity.

Nice post GB. I don't agree with it as it is my opinion we only get one kick at the can. However, it's an honest and GB original thought rather than some random quote or obtuse comment. Wish there was more of this from you.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Au contraire: We are our immaterial beings
i.e., our minds and memory centers and volitions which are the decision makers within our souls.
Our material bodies are temporal homes for our immaterial beings until our brain waves cease.
Then our souls are transported to one of two addresses which we choose for eternity.

Is one of those addresses Mrs Miggin's Pie and Mash shop?

Originally posted by Seitse
I think that without the endocrine system, all they can upload is a simulation
of certain traits of a human. We are our 'gut', for a lack of a better word,
so without that part there's human.

And you can't simulate an endocrine system because.. oh no wait you can simulate that too.

Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
Nice post GB. I don't agree with it as it is my opinion we only get one kick at the can. However, it's an honest and GB original thought rather than some random quote or obtuse comment. Wish there was more of this from you.

dammit...

now is not the time for you to grow up and be all logical and stuff...
you've got an excellent collection of entrails stuck between yer teeth,
show em off!!!

Originally posted by googlefudge
And you can't simulate an endocrine system because.. oh no wait you can simulate that too.

You can simulate, basically, everything. However, it is not the collection
of guts, sweat, hormones, appetites, and randomness which originate the
only feature of humans which cannot be found in animals: the conviction
to pursue impossibles despite the evidence in the contrary.

Don't worry, your techno overlords are safe from my mockery.

Originally posted by Seitse
I think that without the endocrine system, all they can upload is a simulation
of certain traits of a human. We are our 'gut', for a lack of a better word,
so without that part there's human.

Is there a computer that has the capacity to hold every thought a single human ever thunk? Every visual and auditory memory? Every smell, touch and taste?

Essentially, we're talking about the transference of the actual consciousness of an individual to a machine. Plug it into the internet and then what would we get? The antichrist? 😉

Originally posted by Seitse
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35786771

What a load of crap.

I've always been somewhat put off by (what I perceive to be) the underhandedness of those who write such essays.

Tristan Quinn is given credit for producing the show upon which the article is based and the magazine seems to give him the byline on this article as well.

Specifically, his painfully obvious stab at counter-intuitiveness in his use of the descriptive "softly spoken" applied to the person behind the story, Dmitry Itskov.
What? Itskov should be 'bombastic,' or 'supremely arrogant'?

I know it is petty, but thinly veiled attempts to lend legitimacy to a story through such pedantic displays serve nothing more than to take away from the point rather than add to it.

For that reason alone, I call it a load of crap.

Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
Nice post GB. I don't agree with it as it is my opinion we only get one kick at the can. However, it's an honest and GB original thought rather than some random quote or obtuse comment. Wish there was more of this from you.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates:

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates:

the sound of the hydrogen escaping
from the dirigible
is exceeded
only by the subsequent explosion...

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates:

Hear that? It's the sound of inevitability. You're destined to be burned at a stake fashioned from olive branches.