It's needed to take the next step. The problems that you listed are problems with human nature. There is no guarantee that human nature will be the same after taking the next step. I must say it's pretty overly pessimistic to believe that human beings will always be a prisoner in nature's trap and there' s nothing we can do about it ever.
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Read my post again I never said I knew EXACTLY if it was going to better or not but I said that I would rather try to obtain it then sit back and wonder what could have been. Of course there are going to be negatives but it's our job to fight against those negatives and keep on moving forward. The idea is to eliminate the weaknesses of the human body, hunger, disease, fatigue and perhaps even the mental weaknesses such as potential chemical imbalances in the brain. What exactly do you mean by I have not tried in my own life? If I have something then that's great but if I see the potential to have something more then I'll try and obtain it, I've always been taught not to settle for second best. Also sci-fi idea? Trans humanism has been on the rise for quite a while now, it's projected that you will be able to replace your limbs for more efficient ones within your lifetime. ITT: Deus Ex
Depends As the generations go by it's very possible that people would forget what it's like to be human in the first place and would use the term to differ themselves with a previous generation. Or maybe not. We have been evolving slowly overtime but all that evolution is still hindered by one major barrier called death and that is the barrier that I feel needs to be broken before we can make the next big step in human evolution just as the breaking of the sound barrier led to an entirely new generation of super sonic jets, the speed of sound was nothing to us anymore. The only major step we've had within the last 30 years or so is the ability to control our own reproduction rate with birth control as well as the ability to create life through means other then sex.
I do not believe god is the only thing that is above human. I believe we have the capability to become something that is better then human both physically and mentally. I don't KNOW that a new way of thinking is better but I'm human, it's in my nature to reach for things beyond my grasp and I would rather try to achieve this new way of life then not try.
I see no problem with losing humanity if in turn we gain something better. Why is thinking like a human being so much better then any other thought process?
Death is a good motivator But motivation only get's one too far. At the end of the day all motivation and desire for anything will ultimately be shut down because nature decided to kill you. Since the dawn of time mankind has had to struggle with fighting against natures whims. We made the umbrella to protect from nature's rain We made the lightbulb to protect from nature's darkness We made the internet to overcome nature geographic limitations Nature has set and defined rules and it is through set and defined rules that people are limited. Once you go beyond these rules truly can you grasp at anything. Nature is our mother but like any child we must eventually break free from the control of our mother in order to acheive greater things.
Well that comes down to a personal thing. Hence the reason why overtime we've slowly upgraded into storing things into less physical things such as the internet. Why not? We live in a very chaotic world where death is an unpredictable inconvinence Potential scientist, scholars, authors, political leaders, etc are all taken away due to untimely death. Technological advancements not given enough life to bloom due to untimely death. The balance between life and death is heavily in death's favor, it takes away more then it gives.
Hmm? I'm not sure what you're getting at. I see death as a border no different then the sound barrier, it will eventually be overcomed and then we'll have new problems on the rise. Until then though we can atleast use death to our advantage(ie weeding people out)
Death is only natural because we allow it be natural. When we take control of nature we can decide what is and isn't natural and the idea that a 10 year old deserves to die because he can't fight off a disease would be obsolete. Testing does not mean it won't be open to the public. It means it's being tested FOR the public. Once again, speak for yourself. There's currently very little that could get in my way atleast for the next 6 years. I dunno, ask Russia. Personally I think that can just fix itself, people in Africa will eventually die off anyway.
Hey, it's still a step in the right direction, it's not perfect but it's definitely better then dieing at the age of 10 of some wacky ass disease. Also what makes you think it wouldn't be open to the public? Do you really think people would be alright with knowing that artifical bodies exist but not being avaliable to them? Speak for yourself In the next 19 years I could very well be a millionaire if I play my cards right. The over population thing is a problem and that's why we need to get to Mars already.
I highly doubt you would put onto a computer with open access to just anyone. And that's considering if you're stored onto a computer, nowadays things are stored onto the internet anyway just to prevent that from happening. As for the whole soul thing, there's no way to tell what happens as we cannot even perceive what a soul is let alone a consciousness. If we go by what the Buddhist(IE the people who probably have the closest thing to perceiving a soul) say then the soul itself is not exclusive to the body so a body swap should not effect the soul.
maybe. However countries(atleast here in Canada) identify it as "Human rights".
I've seen Ghost in the Shell and I'm saying how are you sure right now that you aren't in a computer progrom ala the Matrix? How do you know you aren't the side effects of some alien experimentation? Unless you show significant signs of being hacked then you have no reason to believe that you have been hacked other then "it's possible" Also that's the SCIENTIFIC definition of a human. Several countries don't follow a scientific definition. For the longest time females were not considered humans in Canada and America.
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Only the insane have mental breakdowns about weather there's an afterlife or not. I doubt people would have mental breakdowns about if they are them or not. And given the fact that we human use such little amounts of our brain there's no way we could properly identify what our consciousness is in the first place Of course laws would have to be modified so that people would have different rights. And you're also forgetting exactly what each country considers a human.
