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Date: 02/02/05
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:52:01 -0900
http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/630/
Transhumanism might be described as the technology of advanced
individual enhancement. While it includes physical modifications
(diamondoid teeth, self-styling hair, autocleaning ears, nanotube bones,
lipid metabolizers, polymer muscles), most of the interest in the
technology focuses on the integration of brains and computers—especially
brains and networks. Sample transhumanist apps could include cell phone
implants (which would allow virtual telepathy), memory backups and
augmenters, thought recorders, reflex accelerators, collaborative
consciousness (whiteboarding in the brain), and a very long list of
thought-controlled actuators. Ultimately, the technology could extend to
the uploading and downloading of entire minds in and out of host bodies,
providing a self-consciousness that, theoretically, would have no
definitive nor necessary end. That is, immortality, of a sort.
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Who in their right mind would desire God-less immortality, as a God-less
bio-machine...engineered as something a whole lot less than human?
Who in their right mind would find it desirable to be eternally
programmed to carry out their God-less 'duties' dictated to them by
their God-less programmers, as a hellbound God-less 'thing'...?
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